B&F: 2257

ABH: 73.199

Status: Former resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare - no modern records

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Recorded in October.

Record: 3 October 1906 (Wallis).   

Observations: The only Northamptonshire record of the moth was of a singleton taken at sugar in 1906 by E. F. Wallis.  The record is mentioned in his, “Lepidoptera of Northamptonshire,” and noted, “near Kettering Oct. 3. 1906.  Once only.”   There is a manuscript addition, “Weekley Hall Wood.” in my copy by F. A. Adams who must have obtained this further detail from Wallis.  This is confirmed in Wallis’s early manuscript records where the locality is specifically given as Weekley Hall Wood, the moth having been taken along with other autumn species including the rather similar Orange Sallow Xanthia citrago  on a sugaring trip to the wood.  The unquestionable expertise of the recorder, coupled with the fact that it was taken alongside the only possible moth that it can be confused with, to my mind, precludes any question of misidentification.

L.O.N.: 1906. Near Kettering. Once only.

First Record: 1906, Wallis.