Identification

Compared with Streak, the large black comma-mark, which is part of a dark narrow central cross-band, coupled with a pale reddish-brown band beyond it is diagnostic.

Recording method

Adult can be found during the day on fence posts, at night on Broom and comes to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa underground. Larvae appear during July to September.

Larval foodplants

Broom.

Habitat

Open woodland, scrub and other places where the larval foodplant of Broom occurs, though certainly not as widespread as its foodplant.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1870 for VC73 at Colvend by White, in 1946 for VC72 in Dumfries by Cunningham.  It has not yet been recorded as far west as VC74.