Season (Adult / Immature):
National Status: Local
Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed and restricted resident.
Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation
Flight time: Mid Jul-mid Sep.
|Year first recorded||1885||1993||1885|
|Year last recorded||2010||2009||2010|
|Number of records||95||35||260|
|Number of individuals||274||51||650|
For the region, we have a total of 260 records from 146 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1885.
For further information refer UK Moths.
Davey, P., 2009: A local species in Britain that favours coasts and heaths, the larva feeding amongst the roots of grasses (Poaceae). In Dorset, the moth is local and occurs in two biotypes. The first is dry heathland, where it is locally common. The second is coastal grassland where it is at low density, and possibly associated with soft brome (Bromus hordeaceus ssp. ferronii). Occasional records from chalky grassland away from the coast hint at colonisation of this biotype too, albeit very locally. The moth occasionally disperses over short to medium distances.