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

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae  late June to July. Pupates in a cocoon underground.

Larval foodplants

Aspen, Black-poplar and cultivated poplars..

Habitat

Broadleaved woodland, poplar plantations and gardens..

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1975 for VC72 in Kirkmahoe parish by Duncan other records close by two years later.