Number of records: 4,558
Recorded in: 415 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 11 x 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 occurs sparingly or fairly commonly at mv light in a wide range of habitats, but it is sometimes common on heaths and in woods. Well distributed, perhaps generally so, but high numbers are local and irregular. Single-brooded, flying mainly from late June to late August, sometimes from the second week of June and occasionally to late September. The larval foodplants are unspecified lichens (not noted in Sussex). (Pratt, 2011)
