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

Identification

Usually distinctive..

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation with occasional smaller second generation from August onwards. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae mid-July to mid-September. Pupates underground.

Larval foodplants

Poplars, Aspen and willows; also possibly Hazel.

Habitat

Woodland, scrub, heathland and wetland.

History

The first record for Dumfries and Galloway was in in 1829 for VC72 at Raehills by Little, in 1913 for VC74 at Dowalton Loch by Gordon and in 1930 for VC73 at Southerness by Duncan.