Red List: Near Threatened (NT). GB Status: Common.

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Active by day and often disturbed from low vegetation. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two overlapping generations. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae June to July and again July to August.

Larval foodplants

Clovers, Lucerne and trefoils.

Habitat

A wide variety of sites where the foodplants are present.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1860 for VC72 near Dumfries by Lennon, in 1862 for VC73 at Dalskairth also by Lennon but not until 1971 for VC74 by Shaw.