Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Nationally Scarce B (Nb).

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Can be disturbed by day. Flkies from dusk. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg. Larvae late April to June. Pupates in a cocoon among plant debris.

Larval foodplants

The flowers and leaves of Bilberry, Cowberry and Cranberry.

Habitat

Damp moorland, heathland and bogs.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1858 for VC72 near Moffat by Somerville, in 1898 for VC74 at Garheugh, Luce Bay by Gordon who found it ‘not uncommon on the moors’ and in 1971 for VC73 at Kirkconnell Flow by Duncan.