B&F: 2014

ABH: 71.010

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in May and June.

Localities: Salcey Forest, Old Pastures, Horn Wood and Badby Wood.

Observations: Generally the species has contracted its range southwards and is now only common in the county’s southern woodlands where sometimes it can be very common as on 31 May 1991 in Hazelborough Wood. It is apparently now absent from its former stronghold Castor Hanglands where fifty years ago it was stated to be common and in some years abundant. It was last seen in Geddington Chase in 1962 where despite many attempts the record has not been updated. I have seen no melanic forms in the county.

L.O.N.: 1903. Barnwell Wold, Badby. Uncommon.

First Record: 1892, Wallis