Red List: Near Threatened (NT). GB Status: Nationally Scarce (Nb)..

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

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

Larval foodplants

Broom.

Habitat

Open woodland, heathland, moorland, scrub, usually associated with large and long established stands of broom.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1870 for VC73 at Colvend by White, in 1946 for VC72 in Dumfries by Cunningham.