B&F: 2385

ABH: 73.087

Status: Migrant.

Distribution and Abundance: Irregular.

Primary Habitat: General occurrence.

Flight Period: Records extend from March to October.

Observations: There was a long interval between the first year that the species was seen in the county in 1952, when moths were seen on
8 March, 14 August and 12 September, and the next record on
3 September 1988. Since then records have become more frequent with moths usually being noted in the late summer and autumn in garden light traps. Three moths were taken on 30 August 2004 at m.v. light in Wellingborough. In the high migration year of 2006 thirty-nine examples of this moth were recorded in the county greatly increasing the modern mapped distribution of the species. At this stage it is not known to what extent this is a pattern for the future and the overall effect on the scarcity of the moth.

First Record: 1952, Gent.