B&F: 2331

ABH: 73.159

Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Fairly common.

Primary Habitat: Wetland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June.

Observations: The moth is particularly common in the Pitsford Water light traps with an average of eighty-three moths recorded annually from 1999 to 2003. Almost all of the moths were seen in June. The species was unrecorded in the Fineshade Rothamsted trap running in woodland in the 1990’s.

L.O.N.: 1907. Kettering, near Faxton, Castle Ashby, Weedon. Not common.

First Record: 1881, Porritt.