Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Nationally Scarce B (Nb).

Identification

Usually distinctive.

Photo required for record acceptance due to rarity status.

Recording Method.

Attracted to light, also comes to sugar and flowers.

Life cycle

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

Larval foodplants

Common Restharrow, Ribwort Plantain, Sand Spurrey, Sea Rocket and Sea Sandwort.

Habitat

Vegetated sand-dunes, shingle and marshes at the coast. Also on inland heathland.

History

There are just three records: first was on 20th June 1896 at Corsemalzie, Wigtownshire, with the second there on 12th June 1897. Thirdly, on 19th June 1906, it was found near the Golf Course at Glenluce.

As this area has received quite a bit of trapping since, it would appear to be extinct in Dumfries & Galloway.