Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded from August to October.

Localities: Hazelborough Wood, Old Pastures, Short Wood and Easton Hornstocks.

Observations: More a species of the county’s southern woodlands the moth was very common at m.v. light on 2 September 1989 at Salcey Forest. The melanic ab. nubilata is also usually common in this locality. In more recent years the moth has been seen again, although in very small numbers, in the middle and north of the county.

L.O.N.: 1907. Castle Ashby, Weedon, Kettering, Stanion. Rather common at sugar.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.