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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Chevron.

Recording method

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

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg on the foodplant. Larvae April to June. Pupates in a cocoon on the foodplant or in debris below.

Larval foodplants

Bilberry.

Habitat

Moorland and open upland woodland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1858 for VC72 near Moffat by Somerville who had found it to be ‘common’,  in 1862 for VC73 at Dalskairth by Lennon who reported that it was ‘not common’ and in 1897 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who thought that it was ‘scarce, taken a few near Kennel Wood and on the moors where bog myrtle grows’.