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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Common White Wave.

Recording method

Flies from dusk. Attracted to light.

Life Cycle

One protracted generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae July to October. Pupates in plant debris.

Larval foodplants

Willows, Aspen and other poplars.

Habitat

Woodland and carr, often wet sites.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon where ‘it was common around the Dumfries area’, in 1906 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who said it was ‘scarce at wood sides at dusk’ and in 1942 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell.