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  The Miller Acronicta leporina  
         
 

B&F: 2280

ABH: 73.040

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Fairly common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Observations: Melanics do not seem to occur, but there is a variation in the depth of the greyish ground colour of ab. grisea which is the form normally encountered.

L.O.N.: 1906. Near Kettering, Blatherwyck (sic). Uncommon.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.