Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Common

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Flies from dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larva  July to September.

Larval foodplants

Various broadleavedtrees including Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Downy Birch and Pedunculate Oak.

Habitat

Broadleaved woodland, scrub and hedgerows.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway as late as 1942 for VC73 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell,  in 1951 for VC72 at Tynron by Duncan and in 1976 in the Rothamsted moth trap at Penninghame House, north of Newton Stewart.