Number of records: 8,560
Recorded in: 589 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 02 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 species which is often fairly common to common at mv light in woods, it sometimes being very common at Walberton. Generally distributed in large areas, perhaps throughout, but high numbers are local. Single-brooded, flying mainly from mid June to mid August, occasionally from the second week of June or to early September. The larval foodplants have not been recorded in Sussex but unspecified lichens growing on trees, fences and rocks, have been recorded elsewhere. (Pratt, 2011)
Climping, 21 vii 2008 Photo: Matthew Sennitt
Pagham Harbour, vi 2006 Photo: Ivan Lang
Hastings, 01 vii 2022 Photo: Martin Allen
larva on sycamore trunk Gloucestershire, 26 iv 2012 Photo: Tony Davis
