This map has been generated by Mapmate 04/11/2011
Distribution:
Widespread and locally frequent, especially about industrial towns such as Wigan.
Habitat:
Waste ground, railway banks, industrial spoil heaps, hedgerows and woodland borders.
Taxon Designation:
Endemic.
Comments:
This species is steadily increasing in abundance in the vice-county and may well have spread along the rail and road network from the main population in North Staffordshire, since the time of the industrial revolution.