Distribution and Abundance:  Local.

Primary Habitat:  Woodland.

Flight Period:  Single brooded in October and November and after hibernation until May.

Localities:  Hazelborough Forest, Pitsford Reservoir, Brampton Wood and Helpston.

Observations:  I have found the moth more plentifully at ivy bloom than at light. For a number of years in the 1980’s it was reliable in its attendance at the ivy growing on an old wall on the edge of Glendon Wood.

L.O.N.:  1905. Near Kettering, Ashton, Weedon. At ivy blossom.

First Record: 1902, Whittingham.