B&F: 1999

ABH: 71.009

Status:  Resident.

Distribution and Abundance:  Local.

Primary Habitat:  Woodland.

Flight Period:  Single brooded from May to July.

Localities: Hazelborough Wood, Pentmore Wood, Longmoor Spinney and Yardley Chase.

Observations: Always local, the species has contracted its range southwards and is now only known to occur in south Northants where it was found to be well established in Hazelborough Forest in 1991. In 2007 it was taken at light in Longmoor Spinney just to the south-west of Hazelborough Forest in SP63 and then in 2009 in Yardley Chase SP85, confirming the belief that there are other undiscovered colonies in suitable woodland in the south of the county. All of the moths that I have seen are of the lighter form and are sometimes common at light in Hazelborough. It was last seen in Salcey Forest in 1969 and despite much recording the record has not been updated. Earlier localities with dates of last records include:-  Bedford Purlieus - pre 1960, Oundle - 1954, Newton - 1954  and Weekley Hall Wood -1919.

L.O.N.:  Castle Ashby.

First Record:  1841, in a wood near Sudboro’, Doubleday.