Number of records: 157
Recorded in: 47 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 19 ix 2024
Identification difficulty
: 2Species where care is needed for identification. Should not present any difficulty for experienced recorders, but inexperienced recorders may be expected to provide additional evidence in the form of photographs of reasonable quality that show as many of the identification features as possible or, alternatively, a specimen. Even experienced recorders may be expected to provide additional evidence if the record is outside of the normal flight period or geographical range of the species.
A resident and suspected occasional immigrant. Normally occurs sparingly at mv light though sometimes fairly common to common on heathland in the west. In serious danger of extinction in the east of the county. Well distributed in the far north-west of the county but very local in numbers. Chiefly known just from Ashdown Forest in the east but in decline. A triple brooded species flying mainly from early April to late May, more numerously from late June to early August, the again less frequently throughout August. The larvae feed on heather. (Pratt 2011)
Iping Common, 24 vi 2017 Photo: Colin Knight
Burton Mill Pond, 1 v 2025 Photo: Colin Piper
Ambersham Common, 23 viii 2013 Photo: Mike Snelling
Pulborough Brooks RSPB, 25 vii 2026 Photo: Anthony Bennett
Ambersham Common, 14 viii 2010 Photo: Derek Lee
Burton Mill Pond, 19 ix 2024 Photo: Colin Piper
Bracklesham, 30 ix 2013 Photo: Derek Lee
Wych Cross, Forest Row, 17 iv 2014 Photo: Hew Prendergast
