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Phibalapteryx virgata Oblique Striped

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Date Site OS Grid Ref Stage Quantity Comment
1993 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 LCES Vol:116-120, p142
1954 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 specimen (s) exhibited at LCES 19/10/1954, LCES 77-78:23, grid reference not provided
1953 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 specimen (s) exhibited at LCES 20/10/1953, LCES 77-78:16, grid reference not provided
15 Aug 1951 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 Grid Reference unknown. Michaelis (1954). query this record, as not in Prichard's diaries
24 Apr 1951 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 Grid Reference unknown. Michaelis (1954)
26 Apr 1950 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 specimen (s) exhibited at LCES 17/10/1950, LCES 74:13, grid reference not provided, LCES 74:42
16 Aug 1947 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 grid reference not provided
12 May 1940 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 grid reference not provided
07 May 1940 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 resting on grasses, grid reference not provided
1940 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1+ exhibited at the Lancs & Ches Ent Soc meeting 26/10/1940, LCES 64-67:13, grid reference not provided, fairly common, Smith (1948)
1939 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1+ grid reference unknown, Smith (1948)
1924 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1+ fairly common, grid reference unknown, Smith (1948)
1917 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1+ Mesotype virgata, commoner on the Cheshire sand-hills than for many years past, exhibited at Lancs & Ches Ent Soc 15/10/1917, The Entom. 51:24, LCES 40-41:35, grid reference not provided, Smith (1948)
08 Aug 1903 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 grid reference not provided.
1893 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 2 grid reference not provided.
23 Apr 1892 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 several, Mesotype lineolata Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 3:132
28 Aug 1890 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 Eubolia llneolata, a second brood emerges in July. Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 1:162
01 May 1890 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 Eubolia llneolata, abundant. On the wing from the end of March in 1890. Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 1:162
12 Apr 1890 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 Eubolia lineolata virgata. Cheshiire sandhills. Grid ref not provided. ENT REC: 1:63
1890 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 13 grid reference and date not provided.
1890 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 grid reference unknown, specimen(s) in the Grosvenor Museum.
18 May 1889 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 Mesotype virgata (lineolata). Grid ref not provided. Entom. 22:291-299
12 May 1888 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1 Mesotype virgata, numerous, grid reference not provided. Entom: 21:313-319. flying in fair numbers in daytime, specimen(s) in the Grosvenor Museum.
1885 Wallasey SJ2792 Not recorded 1+ undated (Eubolia lineolata), Walker (1885), North Wirral sandhills, common, recorded by all who have collected there, Day (1903)
1879 Wallasey Dunes SJ2792 Adult 1+ very common throughout the spring and summer, flying at dusk over the sandhills, especially where bedstraw grows freely. year and grid reference not provided. Young Nat. 1:204-207.
10 Apr 1872 Wallasey SJ2792 Adult 1 E lineolata. Newman's Entomologist 6:122-124, grid reference not provided.
1845 New Brighton SJ3094 Adult 1 Phibalapteryx lineolata, very rare, on grass, The Zool. 4:1222, grid reference not provided
1800 SJ28 SJ28 Not recorded 1+ BRC Ref: V05_01879, date pre 1941


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