B&F: 2493

ABH: 72.052

Status: Unknown.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Wetland.

Flight Period: Recorded in June and July.

Record: 20 July 1939, Kettering (A. Cooper); 25 June 2004 Priors Hall Quarry (M. Hammond); 28 June 2014, Peterborough (D. Chambers); 27 June 2015, Polebrook Airfield (J. Skinner).

Observations: More common in recent years, but once quite rare in the county. The moth illustrated was netted flying over reeds at Priors Hall Quarry during a Moth Group event. The quarry is subject to a housing development, but the linear reed bed has been retained under the conservation plan. There is an earlier record for the county of a moth being found in Kettering near to the Slade Brook on 20 July 1939 by Arthur Cooper, and subsequent records in and near The Soke of Peterborough. Survey work in suitable habitat in late June through July would surely return additional sites for this moth.

First Record: 1939, Cooper.