B&F: 1637

ABH: 66.007

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Localities: Old Pastures, Barford Meadows, Geddington Chase and Castor Hanglands.

Observations: All of the Northamptonshire moths that I have seen have been typical L. quercus quercus and not L. quercus callunae. Female moths are occasionally taken in garden light traps and the day flying males can sometimes be seen flying rapidly along the edges of woodland. In my experience the males are more easily seen by assembling to a fresh female and I have been surprisingly successful with this in my Kettering town garden on a number of occasions; typically on 11 July 1993 when five were seen between 3p.m. and 4p.m. Greater use of this method of recording would probably reveal the species to be more widespread than the mapping suggests.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Rather common, but never in large numbers. Twice I have known them remain in the pupa state over a year.

First Record: 1859, Whall.