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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Males fly around conifers, particularly mature pines, on warm days. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae July to October. Pupates among conifer needles on or just below ground.

Larval foodplants

Mainly Scots Pine but also other conifers.

Habitat

Conifer plantations and other habitats with mature conifers, especially Scots Pine.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1960 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon, in 1895 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who had found it ‘generally scarce and even absent some years’ and in 1942 for VC73 near Gatehouse by Russell.