Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded from May to July.

Observations: The moth is surprisingly uncommon in the static Pitsford Reservoir light traps with only five moths being recorded between 1999 and 2003. By comparison seventy-three examples of the moth were taken at light on 5 June 2004 at Glapthorn Cow Pasture. For a period in the 1980’s the moths taken in my garden light trap were much more like the northern forms of the species.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Common.

First Record: 1881, Porritt.