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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Larvae June/July and late August/September. Overwinters as a pupa, in a cocoon spun in a tightly folded oak leaf.

Larval foodplants

Pedunculate Oak and Sessile Oak.

Habitat

Oak woodland, hedgerows and gardens.

History

Two records, both in August and from Kircudbrightshire; one at Low Camer Wood on 7th August 2008, the other at Creetown on 19th August 2009 were the first for the region. The latter was of a male photographed and establishes the spread northwards of this species.