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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation, occasionally a partial second generation. Overwinters as a larva.  Larvae late August to end of May. Pupates in a cocoon among lichens.

Larval foodplants

Lichens on trees or rocks and walls.

Habitat

Scrub. Also woodland and rocky coasts.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1860 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon, in 1899 for VC74 at Monreith Park by Morton but not until 1974 for VC73 in the Gatehouse of Fleet Rothamsted moth trap.