Distribution and Abundance: Scarce.

Primary Habitat:  General occurrence. 

Flight Period:  Single brooded in July and August.

Observations: The species has greatly declined in more recent years. Details of the number of moths trapped by the two Pitsford Water 125 m.v. light traps running nightly for the decade to 2009 are as follows:- 2000 - 26, 2001 - 16, 2002 - 11, 2003 - 2, 2004 - 1, 2005 - 4, 2006 - 12, 2007 - 1, 2008 - 0 and 2009 - 4. My own field records show that I have seen the moth in five of the past ten years to 2009, usually as a singleton. By comparison, some fifty years ago in 1951 a single 80 watt m.v. light trap running in a Wellingborough garden throughout the season attracted 321 examples of the moth, a typical number for this site in the early 1950’s.

L.O.N.: 1907. Everywhere. Very common.

First Record: 1842, Clark.