Season (Adult / Immature):
National Status: Common
Local Status: Fairly common and fairly widespread resident.
Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation
Flight time: One generation, Oct-Jan.
Foodplant: Broadleaved trees.
|Year first recorded||1805||1883||1846||1883||1883|
|Year last recorded||2014||2014||2014||2015||2014|
|Number of records||289||438||758||967||233|
|Number of individuals||346||993||2384||2198||346|
For the county, we have a total of 2685 records from 381 sites. First recorded in 1805.
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There are scattered records from all five vice-counties for this species and it is generally frequent or common.
2012 (CHF): Common and widespread across the county particularly in woodland where the larvae are common on a wide variety of trees and shrubs.