B&F: 2037

ABH: 72.035

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Very local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded from June to August.

Localities: Fineshade, Bedford Purlieus, Easton Hornstocks and Sutton Wood.

Observations: The moth was common at m.v. light in Easton Hornstocks on 26 July 1991. Writing in the early 1960’s in his unpublished paper, “The Lepidoptera of Castor Hanglands and Ailsworth Heath 1911 – 1960,” R.E.M. Pilcher regarded this species as common. There are no post 1960 records for the reserve.

L.O.N.: Undated. Yardley Chase.

First Record: 1858, Green.