Distribution and Abundance: Fairly common.

Primary Habitat: Woodland.

Flight Period: Single brooded in June and July.

Observations: Melanics do not seem to occur, but there is a variation in the depth of the greyish ground colour of ab. grisea which is the form normally encountered.

L.O.N.: 1906. Near Kettering, Blatherwyck (sic). Uncommon.

First Record: 1882, Hull & Tomalin.