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Sword-grass
Xylena exsoleta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Noctuidae: Xyleninae
2242 / 73.208
Photo © Peter Hall,  Rosemarkie, East Ross vc-106. March 2022

Similar Upper Thames Species
Red Sword-grass
Xylena vetusta
Golden-rod Brindle
Xylena solidaginis
Foodplant:   Herbaceous plants and low woody plants
Red List: Least Concern (LC)
GB Status: Nationally Scarce
Former Status: Nationally Scarce B
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3

Extinct as a resident in the region (as elsewhere in southern Britain). The more recent records are likely to have been immigrants.

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 7 (5%) of 140 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1750.
Last Recorded in 1989.

Latest 5 Records
Date#VC10k Area
29/03/1989122SU29 - Faringdon
1975+22SU58 - Didcot (S) / Streatley
01/01/1960 to 31/12/1981123SP50 - Oxford, Wheatley, Garsington
1940123SP41 - Kidlington, Woodstock
1940123SP50 - Oxford, Wheatley, Garsington
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