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Lycia zonaria Belted Beauty

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Date Site OS Grid Ref Stage Quantity Comment
1903 Red Rocks, Hoylake SJ2088 Not recorded 1+ Hoylake, undated, Day (1903), grid reference unknown
22 Apr 1900 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Larval 1 Ent. Rec. 13:131, grid reference not provided
1899 West Kirby SJ2187 Not recorded 1+ referred to in Mike Hull's address - no data given but refers to the moth being abundant, Delf (1998)
1899 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Not recorded 1+ referred to in Mike Hull's address - no data given but refers to the moth being abundant, Delf (1998), this colony at Derby Baths probably extinct, Wallace (1993)
1899 Meols SJ2290 Not recorded 1+ referred to in Mike Hull's address - no data given but refers to the moth being abundant, Delf (1998)
1899 Leasowe SJ2491 Not recorded 1+ referred to in Mike Hull's address - no data given but refers to the moth being abundant, Delf (1998)
1899 Burton Saltmarsh SJ2974 Not recorded 1+ referred to in Mike Hull's address - no data given but refers to the moth being abundant, Delf (1998)
1896 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1+ Grid reference not provided. Ent. Rec. 9:68
1896 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1+ Grid reference not provided. Ent. Rec. 9:70
1895 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 3 grid reference not provided
23 Apr 1892 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 30 Nyssia zofiaria Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 3:132
1892 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 8 grid reference not provided. 6 male, 2 female
1891 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 grid reference not provided
05 Jul 1890 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Larval 1+ Nyssla zonarla. Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 1:162
04 Apr 1890 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 80 Nyssla zonarla, 10 females. Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 1:162
12 May 1888 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 2 not common here in recent years, only single male & female found today, grid reference not provided, Entom: 21:313-319
1885 Puddington SJ3273 Not recorded 1+ undated - maintains existence in a portion of the last locality which is constantly covered by the tide. I have seen the females crawling up rail posts to avoid the tide, Walker (1885)
1885 Puddington SJ3273 Not recorded 1+ undated - formerly abundant, Walker (1885)
1885 Wallasey Dunes SJ2893 Not recorded 1+ grid reference not provided. undated - formerly abundant, Walker (1885)
1885 Red Rocks, Hoylake SJ2088 Not recorded 1+ Hoylake, undated - formerly abundant, Walker (1885), grid reference unknown.
12 Feb 1882 Wallasey Dunes SJ2893 Adult 1 The Entomologist 15:116-117, grid reference not provided. Common most years and recorded by all the local collectors, Day (1903)
1879 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1+ plentiful all over the sandhills. Larvae abundant on dwarf willows. year and grid reference not provided. Young Nat. 1:204-207.
10 Apr 1872 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 on Marram. Newman's Entomologist 6:122-124, grid reference not provided.
1867 Puddington SJ3273 Adult 1 plenty on the salt-marsh, at a place occasionally overflowed by the tide. Entom. (1866-67) 47:365-366
1867 Red Rocks, Hoylake SJ2088 Adult 1 Entom. (1866-67) 47:365-366
1867 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 Some years ago it swarmed, then became scarce, now abundant. Entom. (1866-67) 47:365-366
20 Feb 1863 Cheshire Unknown Adult 1 Nyssia zonaria, out on the sand-hills since Feb 20th 1863, The Weekly Ent. 2:62. Grid reference not provided, probably North Wirral, Wallasey etc
1862 Red Rocks, Hoylake SJ2088 Adult 1+ referred to in Mike Hull's address - no data given but refers to the moth being abundant, Delf (1998). The Weekly Ent. 1:127. Grid reference not provided
04 Apr 1861 Cheshire Unknown Adult 1+ Nyssia zonaria, very abundant, extremely sluggish, sitting motionless on the sand, partially concealed behind tufts of grass which dot the sandhills, The Zool. 19:7528, grid reference not provided
1854 Bidston SJ2891 Adult 1 undated. a straggler found at this site. Byerley (1854)
1854 New Brighton SJ3094 Not recorded 1+ very common and where this species was first discovered. Byerley (1854)
1833 New Brighton SJ3094 Adult 1+ several on the Cheshire coast, The Entomologist, Vol. X, August 1877, p215-216 (Cooke)
1832 New Brighton SJ3094 Pupal 1+ in the sand on the Cheshire coast, female. The Entomologist, Vol. X, August 1877, p215-216 (Cooke)


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