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

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Knot Grass.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Pupates in a cocoon under bark or similar crevice. Larvae  July to September.

Larval foodplants

Aspen and poplars.

Habitat

Woodland, parks, gardens and other habitats where the larval foodplants are present.

History 

First record was by Sir Arthur Duncan who had found it in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfries, on 1st July 1972.

Twenty-five years later, there were four records from Kirkton during 1997-2001, followed by three from Auchencairn, singularly in 2002, 2003, and 2007. One was trapped at Lochfoot in 2010.