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Small Chocolate-tip
Clostera pigra (Hufnagel, 1766)
Notodontidae: Pygaerinae
2017 / 71.028
Photo © Dave Wilton,  Stoke Common, Bucks

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Chocolate-tip
Clostera curtula
Forewing: 11-14mm
Flight: April-May & June-August
Foodplant:   Willows and Aspen
Red List: Least Concern (LC)
GB status: Nationally Scarce
Former Status: Nationally Scarce B
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3

Old records for Herefordshire and Shropshire up until 1968.

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 6 (4%) of 140 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1887.
Last Recorded in 1968.
(Data up to end 2023)

Latest 5 Records (Data up to end 2023)
Date#VC10k Area
1968+36SO74 - Colwall & Malvern Hills AONB
September 1963736SO62 - E Ross & Dymock Forest
1939140SJ22 - Oswestry/Llanymynech
1908+40SO49 - Church Stretton
1908+36SO53 - SE Hereford & Haugh Wood
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