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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Acrolepiopsis assectella - Leek Moth



Range & Status

Recorded from Spain to Siberia and from Hawaii. In Britain, from southern and southeastern coastal counties (Emmet, 1996).

Regional Distribution

Recorded from a Torpoint garden in 2007 and from two gardens in Torpoint in 2008.

Habitat & Ecology

Feeds on Leek, Onion or Garlic Allium spp.

Threats

None known.

Conservation

None.



Click here to see Aphotoflora images by David Fenwick

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.