B&F: 0162

ABH: 50.001

Distribution and Abundance: Rare.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Records: 20 May 2020 - Eastfield, Peterborough; 11th July 2022 - Helpston; 30th August 2022 & 12th August 2024 - Tanholt Pits, Peterborough (larval records).

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). The only post-2000 records are from the Peterborough area.

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.