A. comariana (L. & Z.) Res., 1907-1980. Herbaceous Rosaceae, including cultivated strawberry.
Loc. and rather r.
VC 18. 70 Little Baddow (GAP); 89 Rochford; Stambridge (HCH); 98 *North Shoebury
(FGW); 09 Foulness, reared (AME). VC 19. 43 High Wood; 53 Quendon; Rowney Wood; 54
Little Hales Wood (AME); 72 Braintree (DJLA); 81 Tiptree, 1939 (Sir John Fryer, pers,
comm. to HCH; AME); Wickham Bishops (GCD); 23 Dovercourt; Harwich (MEA).
A. sparsana ([D. & S.]) Res., 1880-1980. Acer pseudoplatanus, Carpinus, Fagus. Wdspd and c,
especially in hornbeam woods. 49 *Loughton (Warren, 1880).
A. rhombana ([D. & S.]) Res., 1887-1980. Woody Rosaceae. Wdspd and abdt. 23 *Harwich
(GFM).
A. aspersana ((Hubn.) Res., 1870-1979. Herbaceous Rosaceae. Loc. and rather r.
VC 18. 49 *High Beach (Boyd diary); Loughton; Woodford Bridge; 58 Upminster (Thurnall,
1902); 67 Tilbury Docks (HME & TGH); 68 Laindon (AT);78 Benfleet;79 Woodham Ferrers;
Rettendon; 88 Hadleigh (HCH). VC 19. 43 Littlebury; 53 Rowney Wood; 54 Bartlow Hills
(AME); 02 Colchester, c. in strawberry beds (VCH).
A. ferrugana ([D. & S.]) Res., (1915)-1980. Quercus spp., Salix caprea. The distribution patterns
of this species and the next are imperfectly known as they have been confused and the names
changed and even interchanged. This is the less c. and more loc. species.
VC 18. 39 Chingford (PH); 58 Romford (KRT); 59 Coxtie Green (PJW); 78 *Thundersley
(FGW, teste Pierce & Metcalfe, 1915); Benfleet; 79 Rettendon; 70 Chelmsford (HCH);
Danbury (AME; AJF & RF); Little Baddow (GAP); 88 Belfairs (DGD); Hadleigh; Westcliff-
on-Sea; 89 Rochford (HCH). VC 19. 53 Quendon; Rowney Wood; 54 Little Hales Wood
(AME); 81 Wickham Bishops (GCD); 02 *Colchester (WHH, teste Pierce & Metcalfe, 1915).
A. notana (Don.) (tripunctana Hubn.) Res., (1915)-1980. Betula. Wdspd and c; under-recorded
in the northern vice-county. 58 *Romford (AT, teste Pierce & Metcalfe, 1915).
A. shepherdana (Steph.) Res., (1905)-1978. Filipendula ulmaria. V. loc. c. in marshes and damp
woodland. *Essex (Barrett, 1905), referring to a record I have failed to trace.
VC 18. 78 Bowers Gifford (HCH). VC 19. 52 Hatfield Forest Marsh NR, 1978; 53 Saffron
Walden; Rowney Wood (AME); 80 Ulting (HCH).
A. schalleriana (Linn.) Res., c.1935-1979. Viburnum lantata, V. opulus. Loc. and r.
VC 18. 57 Purfleet (AME); 68 Stanford-le-Hope (JMC-H); 78 Benfleet; 79 Rettendon; 88
Hadleigh (HCH). VC 19. 53 *Saffron Walden (HCH).
A. variegana ([D. & S.)) Res., 1887-1980. Woody Rosaceae. Wdspd and abdt. 23 *Harwich
(GFM).
A. boscana (Fabr.) Res., (1902)-1980. Ulmus spp. Wdspd and f.c.; apparently increasing in spite of
Dutch elm disease. 38 *Leyton, formerly (Thurnall, 1902).
A. umbrana (Hubn.) NRR, before 1894. Polyphagous. Always loc, r. and elusive; may persist.
VC 18.49 Epping Forest, formerly taken sparingly by Mr Machin and others (Thurnall, 1902);
Hainault Forest (VCH).
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