Date | Site | OS Grid Ref | Stage | Quantity | Comment |
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29 Jul 2006 | Cholmondeley | SJ5450 | Adult | 1 | Genitalia checked. photo in annual report |
29 Jul 1990 | Hogshead Wood, Oakmere | SJ5869 | Adult | 1+ | Netted. Not uncommon flying very low over sand hill with sparse moss covering among Bryotropha umbrosella, centroid grid reference SJ582691 |
1850 | New Brighton | SJ3093 | Not recorded | 1+ | C fumatella was described by Douglas from a specimen collected by Gregson from New Brighton. date & grid reference unknown. Hull (1996) |
1850 | Liscard | SJ3092 | Not recorded | 1+ | Gelechia celerella Stainton (Stainton's Manual, 11, 332), collected by Gregson from Liscard near New Brighton, was synonymized with this species (Meyrick, 1928). Ellis lists another Gregson record from Leasowe and says, on the sandhills between Wallasey and Leasowe, for G fumatella. Apart from the New Brighton and Liscard records, Hull says, Other Gregson specimens of C fumatella from Wallasey were another unspecified species, with the reference Pierce & Metcalfe, 1935, Hull (1996) |