Number of records: 13,911
Recorded in: 587 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 29 x 2024
Identification difficulty
: 1Species that can be relatively easily identified even by inexperienced recorders with the use of up-to-date field guides. Such records would be accepted without the need for additional evidence as long as they conform to the normal flight period and geographical range of the species.
This resident species is often common and occasionally very common in a wide range of habitats; probably generally distributed. Single-brooded flying mainly from late June to mid October. Larvae feed on unspecified species of ribbon grass. (Pratt, 2011)
Climping, 29 viii 2008 Photo: Matthew Sennitt
Shipley Lane, Bexhill, 22 ix 2019 Photo: Martin Banks
