B&F: 0162
ABH: 50.001
Status: Resident.
Distribution
and Abundance: Rare.
Primary Habitat:
General occurrence.
Flight Period:
Single brooded in June and July.
Records: 1981
(larva) Yardley Chase (A. Richardson), 12 July 1988 Sulby
Gardens (C. Lowe).
Observations:
In the first half of the last century this species was
described as common at Castor Hanglands and seems to have
been locally common elsewhere. For many years it was
present in a row of old poplars in Rockingham Road
Pleasure Park in Kettering. In more recent years there
have been fewer records with long intervals in between.
Earlier records include 1976 Charwelton (K. Williams) and
1969 (larva) Isham (K. N. Baskcomb).
L.O.N.:
Undated. Well distributed over the county. The larvae
sometimes abundant in old willow stumps. The imago is not
so often seen, but it is a conspicuous object when it
flies heavily about in the summer evenings.
First Record:
1845, Whitwell.
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