Green-brindled
Crescent Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758) ![](http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/textbanner04.jpg) |
Status
.....Presumed to be a fairly common moth at many
sites across Nottinghamshire. There is currently just one
post-1990 Sherwood Forest NNR record, in October 2010. |
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Photographed
at Lound Wood October 2013 |
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Photographed
at Lound Wood September 2010 |
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Brown form Allophyes
oxyacanthae ab. capuncina, photographed at
Gamston Wood October 2013 |
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Photographed
at Lound Wood October 2010 |
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Early stages ![](http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds5/textbanner04.jpg) |
Young
larvae (12-15mm length). Photographed on Blackthorn Prunus spinosa,
Eakring Meadows April 2023. |
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Full-grown larva. Photographed on Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna at
Dukes Wood May 2022 |
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