B&F: 1897

ABH: 70.215

Status: Unknown.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare - no modern records

Primary Habitat: Gardens.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Records: 1991 Old Pastures (G. Higgs), 18 July 1999 Kettering garden (J. Ward), 27 July 1991 Brigstock (M. Smith) and 17 July 1984 Helpston garden (M. Hillier). 

Observations: Although not greatly attracted to light the species has progressively declined in abundance since Wallis’s comments below. In the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s it was seen almost annually in Kettering. In the early 1950’s an annual average of five moths were taken at an m.v. light trap running in a Wellingborough garden. Despite looking for the species on the food plants, currant and gooseberry, in my own rural garden in Kettering over the last decade I have only seen a single moth which was taken at light on 18 July 1999.  

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Common. 

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.