Identification

Male has a white face.

Recording method

Comes to light and sugar.

Life cycle

Larvae: May-June, in spun leaves. Adults: June-August.

Larval foodplants

Many deciduous and coniferous trees & shrubs including Yew.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire, on 4th July 1976 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found near Dalry on 24th July 1998, with the Wigtownshire first being trapped at Cairnhead on the Isle of Whithorn on 10th August 2013.