Distribution and Abundance: Fairly common.

Primary Habitat: Waste ground.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Observations: Although I have recorded the moth at light within the county in seven of the ten years to 2010 it has always been in small numbers. It is much more common on the flowery limestone grassland of Collyweston Quarry with seven coming to light on 4 July 1987.

L.O.N.: 1907. Many localities. Common at flowers of S. inflata, etc.

First Record: 1859, Sturgess.