Distribution and Abundance:  Fairly common.

Primary Habitat:  Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in September and October.

Observations: Although regularly seen in small numbers in the Pitsford Water static light traps the moth was not recorded in the Fineshade woodland Rothamsted trap in the 1990’s. A melanic specimen was reared from larvae found on 16 May 1987 in the crevices in the bark of oak at Yardley Chase. The pupa can readily be found by turning over the soil at the foot of oaks during the summer months.

L.O.N.:  1907. Many localities. Common. At sugar etc.

First Record:  1881, Porritt.