B&F: 2156

ABH: 73.265

Status: Resident. 

Distribution and Abundance: Rare.

Primary Habitat: Grassland.

Flight Period: Single brooded from May into July.

Records: 6 June 2002 East Haddon (R. Baylis), 10 June 1987 Kingswood (D. Howton) and  14 June 2004 Collyweston Quarry (D. Larkin).

Observations: The best-known site in the county is Collyweston Quarry where the moth was fairly common at light on 21 May 1988 and 29 May 1989. The other locality records are of singletons.  A single moth was also taken on 6 July 1951 in a Wellingborough garden light trap and was the only example of the moth recorded at this well worked site during the 1950’s.

Confusion Species: Pale-shouldered Brocade

L.O.N.: Undated. Vict. Hist. and later C1910. The species was taken at Farming Woods.

First Record: 1841, Doubleday.