Light Knot Grass
Acronicta menyanthidis

B&F Code
73.042

Authority

Esper, 1798

Family
Noctuidae

Subfamily
Acronictinae

Genus
Acronicta

National Status
Local

Species account (old)

[...] In Durham it is [...] the high moorland areas to which the few records refer. J. P. Robson noted it as common on the moors in Teesdale in 1927 and H. C. Regnart took it on Muggleswlck Common in 1930. After the wartime hiatus Professor K. Morton found it on the moors off Waskerley Beck above Tunstall Reservoir re recently I. Findlay has collected it at Eggleston and High Force in Teesdale

Dunn, T.C. and J.D. Parrack, The Moths and Butterflies of Northumberland and Durham (NNU: 1986, 1992). Reprinted gratefully with permission.

Statistics

Records	14
Individuals	16
Largest Sample	2
First Recorded	1927
Last Recorded	2022
Earliest Adult Record	11/05
Latest Adult Record	13/06
Monad Coverage	0.4%
Hexad Coverage	16.7%

Map

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