63.045 BF1401

Maruca vitrata
Mung Moth

(Fabricius, 1787)

[= testulalis]

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Wingspan 28-34 mm.

A very rare vagrant or adventive species, possibly imported from the Tropics in leguminous vegetables. Abroad, it is a pest of these types of plant, where the larvae bore into the pods.

There have only been a handful of records in Britain, mainly in southern England, but the example shown was found in Congleton, Cheshire in September 2000, where it constituted the first county record.

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Flight period

JFMAMJJASOND

Records per month

Month	Records
January	0
February	0
March	0
April	0
May	0
June	0
July	0
August	1
September	1
October	1
November	0
December	0