B&F: 2131

ABH: 73.354

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Localities: Old Sulehay Forest, Bedford Purlieus, Whitewater Reservoir and Castor Hanglands.

Observations: On 26 July 1997 at Whitewater Reservoir seven moths came to sugar and two to m.v. light. This preference to sugar has been noted twice previously at this site. Detailed records of light trapping from Old Sulehay Forest for 2002 are as follows:- 6 August 2002, 6 moths recorded, 28 August 2002, 2 moths recorded. Thirty-six examples of the moth were taken at m.v. light on 5 August 2005 at Ring Haw. The record at SP75 on the map is from Salcey Forest in 1968. Wallis’s 1907 record is obtained from unpublished material and was not included in L.O.N.

Confusion Species: Double Square-spot, Triple-spotted Clay.

L.O.N.: Unrecorded.

First Record: 1907, Geddington Chase, Wallis.