Distribution and Abundance: Very local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in April and May.

Localities: Hazelborough Wood, Salcey Forest and Yardley Chase.

Observations: Wallis’s 1906 record below was of a moth taken in Weekley Hall Wood. Although the wood was well worked subsequently the record was not updated. The moth can be particularly common at Salcey Forest which has been a known locality for the species for around half a century. In view of its present southern distribution in the county further colonies could be present in some of the unworked woodlands in south Northants.

L.O.N.: 1906. Weedon, near Kettering. Not common.

First Record: 1906, Whittingham.