B&F: 2329

ABH: 73.165

Status: Possible vagrant/accidental.

Observations: Over the years there are a number of old records of the occurrence of this species in the county. The moth is easily confused with the obscurely marked form of the Dusky Brocade A. remissa ab. obscura. According to the write-up in, “The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland,” by Heath, J., Emmet, A. M. and others, (1976-), vol. 10, p. 194, “The species affects rocky places on coasts and inland on mountains. It is chiefly northern and western in Britain, and many records from the south are due to misidentification.” Although the species is not mapped for the county in M.O.B.G.B.I. and is clearly not a resident moth of Northamptonshire some of the old records have been published elsewhere and could have been vagrants. I have therefore included the species.

Confusion Species: Dusky Brocade

L.O.N.: 1906. Near Faxton, Northampton. Not common.

First Record: 1906, Wallis.