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- Significant Record / Very Rare / Vagrant
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- care required in the identification process, as confusion with similar species is likely - quality photographs required. Confusion Species: Acrobasis advenella (Hawthorn Knot-horn); Acrobasis marmorea (Marbled Knot-horn)
ID pointers: The largest of the British Acrobasis species. It is rather dark, being mostly a reddish-purple with two indistinct pale cross-lines and a whitish suffusion forming a streak near the leading edge of the forewing.
Distribution: (Last record: 2019 at Kings Newton ) - Only two records both from the same site in Kings Newton one in 2018 & one 15/7/2019
*** Last updated on 31 March 2025 by TD ***
Last Recorded Year: 2019
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