B&F: 2084

ABH: 73.316

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Very local.

Primary Habitat: Grassland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in May and June.

Localities: Long Buckby, Barford Meadows, Storefield Wood and Brigstock.

Observations: The species is established at low density on the old quarried land around Kettering and although fairly reliable in its attendance at light I have only ever seen it in very small numbers. As the moth wanders and probably occurs on some of the county’s other quarried land, I think that this is the source of the Long Buckby record. There are few historical records but it appears to have become more plentiful in the 1950’s with an annual average of eight moths taken from 1951 to 1953 in a Wellingborough garden m.v. light trap. Moths were also taken at sugar in 1956 and 1957 in Grafton Park Wood. All of the Northamptonshire examples that I have seen are medium to dark brown in colouration.

L.O.N.: 1906. Near Faxton, Geddington Chase. At sugar. Not common.

First Record: 1902, Victoria County History.