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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa, attached to a leaf or stem. Larvae  June to August, second generation September to October.

Larval foodplants

Beech.

Habitat

Beech woods that are mature, but also hedgerows with Beech.

History

The first record for Dumfries and Galloway, and Scotland,  was in VC73 in Mabie Forest in 2011.  The first record for VC74 was in 2017 in Newton Stewart.