B&F: 2064

ABH: 72.024

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence.

Flight Period: Double brooded in May and again in July and August.

Observations: The species was unrecorded by Wallis and generally seems to have been uncommon in the county until the advent of m.v. light trapping in the 1950’s. I have almost always recorded the moth for the first time in July and August and only seen spring moths on one occasion over the past decade. This trait is repeated in historical records from Wellingborough in the 1950’s where in a sample of 125 moths, 94% were seen in July and August and more recently from Pitsford Water from 1999 to 2003 where 96% of the 461 moths recorded were also seen in these months. The species has increased in numbers in the Pitsford Water light traps over the years from 1999 to 2003 as follows:- 1999 - 53, 2000 - 65, 2001 - 71, 2002 - 98 and 2003 - 174.

L.O.N.: Victoria History.  

First Record: 1842, Clark.