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Bembecia scopigera (Scop.) Six-belted Clearwing
Ol Fingringhoe Wick NR, July 1986 (LH, confirmed JF),
the first Essex record since the 1960's.
BUTTERFLIES
PAPILIONIDAE
Papilio machaon (Linn.) The Swallowtail
38 Walthamstow, July 1984 (Plant, 1986). We can only
speculate on the origin of this individual, especially
as it is not known whether it belonged to the continental
race bigeneratus Verity.
LYCAENIDAE
Callophrys rubi (Linn.) Green Hairstreak
79 Shotgate Thickets NR, 1986 (PG), the first modern
record of this now very localised species from this
square.
Aricia agestis (D. & S.) Brown Argus
Recorded in 1986 in squares 89,99,09 and 11. As
this now localised species had not previously been
found in any of the four sites involved, three of them
well recorded, it is possible that it is in the process
of recovering lost ground.
NYMPHALIDAE
Ladoga camilla (Linn.) White Admiral
11 Riddles Wood, established (RWA). This wood is c.10
miles SW of the Stour estuary woods, hitherto the only
locality in which this species was known still to be
established.
Nymphalis polychloros (Linn.) Large Tortoiseshell
48 Wanstead Park, 14 July, 1985 (Plant, 1985).
Nymphalis antiopa (Linn.) Camberwell Beauty
92 Friday Wood, 23 July 1985 (BG); 02 Ardleigh, 2,
31 August 1986 (AP); 11 Clacton, 10 July 1986 (IB);