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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Pupates in loose earth. Larva  July to September.

Larval foodplants

Bramble, Raspberry and Hazel.

Habitat

Mainly woodland, sometimes scrub and hedgerows.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway for VC73 at Dalskairth, near Dumfries by Lennon who stated that it was ‘not common’, for VC74 in 1898 at Corsemalzie by Gordon (1919) who found it to be ‘frequent in open clearings in woods, but also in gardens’ and for VC72 in 1952 at Tynron by Duncan.