Distribution and Abundance: Common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Double brooded in May and June and again in August.

Observations: In my experience in the county, the species is much more associated with poplars than any of the other quoted foodplants. Detailed light trap records from a Wellingborough garden fifty years ago in 1951, show seven males and one female of the first brood recorded between 24 May 1951 and 30 June 1951 and nine males and one female of the second brood recorded between 26 July 1951 and 05 September 1951. Whereas the brood times compare well with the present, the numbers are higher than those that I have seen recorded for the species in garden light traps nowadays.

L.O.N.: 1906. Northampton. At light.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.