Number of records: 115
Recorded in: 31 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 01 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 normally occuring singly at mv light, but it is sometimes fairly common on heathland. Now restricted to the far west of the county and to the Ashdown Forest area. Single-brooded flying mainly from mid August to late September. Larval foodplant has been recorded as heather. (Pratt, 2011)
Ashdown Forest, 05 ix 2021 Photo: Charles Waters
Ashdown Forest East Sussex, 8 ix 2006 Photo: Keith Alexander
Ashdown Forest, 04 ix 2020 Photo: Charles Waters
Ashdown Forest, 22 viii 2020 Photo: Charles Waters
Wych Cross, Forest Row, 14 viii 2014 Photo: Hew Prendergast
Ashdown Forest, 24 viii 2025 Photo: Charles Waters
Ashdown Forest, 08 ix 2023 Photo: Charles Waters and Alison Playle
