Key to Text Moths of Northamptonshire

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  Black Arches Lymantria monacha  
         
  Status: Resident.

Distribution and Abundance: Local.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in July and August.

Localities: Old Pastures, Boughton Park, Short Wood and Castor Hanglands.

Observations: The more suffused forms do not seem to occur in the county.

L.O.N.: 1907. Near Kettering, Weedon, Geddington Chase, Yardley Chase. Not uncommon on tree trunks.

First Record: 1859, Sturgess.