B&F: 2470

ABH: 72.067

Status: Former resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Rare - no modern records

Primary Habitat: Grassland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in May and June.

Localities and Last Record: Bedford Purlieus to 1926, Lady Wood to 1940, Castor Hanglands to 1940 and Wakerley Wood to 1952. Last record 1955 Wellingborough (P. Gent).

Observations: “The Flora of Northamptonshire,” shows that although declined the foodplant common milkwort is still occasional in the county, being present in some seventeen 10km grid squares. As some of these cover the old localities it seems likely that the species still occurs in the county and that due to its small size and rapid diurnal flight the moth has been overlooked.

L.O.N.: 1907. Several localities. Local.

First Record: 1890, Edwards.