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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with September Thorn. Typically the tarsus is white giving the appearance of white “socks”( yellowish in September Thorn).

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae Pupates among leaves of the foodplants.

Larval foodplants

Pedunculate Oak, limes and Small-leaved Elm.

Habitat

Woodland and parkland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC73 at Terregles by Lennon who said it was ‘not common’, in 1895 for VC74 at Monreith by Maxwell who caught ‘six specimens flying at dusk’ but not until 1999 for VC72 at Durisdeer.