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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Easily disturbed from pines during the day. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as an egg or small larva.  Larvae September and June. Pupates among pine needles on the tree or in fallen debris.

Larval foodplants

Scots Pine and Corsican Pine.

Habitat

Associated with mature Scots Pine trees, as its common name indicates, in a variety of habitats, but is generally absent from extensive conifer plantations.

Recorders’ notes

History 1860-2010

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway for VC72  in 1862 at Tinwald Downs, Dumfries by Lennon who stated it was ‘not very common’, for VC74 in 1898 at Corsemalzie  by Gordon who found it ‘rather scarce in woods’ and for VC74 in 1942 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell.