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

See also Moth of the Week (25/08/2019)

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Water Carpet and Small Phoenix.

Recording method

Flies at dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa.  Pupates under plant debris on the ground. Larvae June to July and September to October.

Larval foodplants

Marsh Bedstraw.

Habitat

Damp woodland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway and for Scotland in 2013 at Glassoch Farm, north-west of Newton Stewart (VC74),  in 2015 at Caerlaverock (VC72)  and also in 2015  at Rascarrell Plantation (VC73).