Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Records: 15 August 1987 Yardley Chase (B. Statham), 27 July 2002 Bozeat (S. David), July 1992 Wellingborough (D. Larkin) and January 2005 (larvae) Maxey (P. Waring).

Observations:  Established and recorded annually in the 1930’s and the 1940’s in the Kettering area. In January 2005 a colony of overwintering larvae were observed in communal webs on the Deeping by-pass near to Maxey. In 2006 the larval webs from this colony where found to have spread and moths were taken at light in four new grid squares indicating a further re-establishment of the species in the county.

L.O.N.: Undated. Billing, Cogenhoe.

First Record: 1859, Sturgess.