B&F: 2120

ABH: 73.333

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Observations: Moths were particularly common at sugar at Castor Hanglands in the 1980’s. Pale forms are predominant within the Northamptonshire populations of the species. A variety of the moth showing extreme light and dark markings was taken at light on 20 June 1988 in Geddington Chase. The moth was exhibited and photographed, see Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. Vol 8, part 4, page 187, plate 111.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Very common.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.