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Family: Crambidae   Checklist Number: 63.068

Eudonia murana  (Curtis, 1827)

Moorland Grey

The first record for over 100 years occurred in 2010, but with more trappers it is now regularly recorded. On the wing from May to September over mountains and moorland. The larval food-plants are thought to be a range of mosses.

References: 
Sterling, P. & Parsons, M. (2023 second edition). Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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