B&F: 2242

ABH: 73.208

Status: Former resident/Possible migrant.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: All known dated records have been in the autumn prior to hibernation.

Records: 20 October 1945 Sywell Wood (F. Adams), 1948 Sywell Wood (P. Gent), 1921 Ashton Wold (Oundle School record), pre 1961 Castor Hanglands (R. Pilcher) and 1882 Whittlebury Forest (W. Hull & H. Tomalin).

Observations: Writing in the early 1960’s in his unpublished paper, “The Lepidoptera of Castor Hanglands and Ailsworth Heath 1911 – 1960,” R.E.M. Pilcher regarded this species as not common on the reserve. I have traced no larval records.

Confusion Species: Red Sword-grass

L.O.N.: 1904, Sept. Barnwell, Weedon, Kettering etc. At sugar etc.

First Record: 1843, Westwood, Whitwell.