General comments:
Extremely local resident.

"One example of this species (Tapinostola Hellmanni Evers.) came to light at Mr Foster's residence, The Grange, Hitchin, at about 12 o'clock midnight, and being an unexpected capture -. it has been submitted to Mr C. G. Barrett - and he pronounces it to be correctly named". The report is for 1903, but in opening the report Gibbs comments that none of the records mentioned were made in the year under review. However, Foster himself clarifies the situation, and adds an earlier record, in his 1937 county list where he gives 'Hitchin, 1880 (S. Tuke) and 1903 (A. H. Foster)'. Presumably the Hertfordshire record noted by Meyrick (1928, Revised Handbook, page 75) refers to one or both of these.

Our recent records are from the same geographical area of North Herts, where it is extremely local but resident on the larval host-plant Wood Small-reed (Calamagrostis epigejos). Although this moth is primarily a resident of parts of Suffolk, the late Bernard Skinner informed me that it has also occurred around fifty or so times as an immigrant in Britain: this might explain one in a garden light trap at Osterley Park, Middlesex on 15th July 2011 and another in the Barnet area on 29th June 2015.

Recorded in 7 (17%) of 41 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1903. Last Recorded in 2023. Additional Stats

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