Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in March and April.

Localities: Old Pastures, Chelveston, Raunds Wood and Fermyn Woods.

Observations: In 1997 a large larval web was found in a hawthorn hedge in Warmington part of which formed the rear boundary of a garden in which a moth trap operated. Although the trap was run in the flight period of the moth in subsequent years no moths were seen.

L.O.N.: Undated. Yardley Chase, Castle Ashby.

First Record: 1859, Sturgess.