Key to Text Moths of Northamptonshire

Key to Map
  Vine's Rustic Hoplodrina ambigua  
         
  Status:  Resident and possible migrant.

Distribution and Abundance:  Fairly common.

Primary Habitat:  General occurrence.

Flight Period:  Recorded in all months from June to September with most records in September.

Observations:  The first record in the 1970’s was not repeated until 1991. After this the moth seems to have become established in the county and is now regularly recorded from a variety of habitats; probably being more widespread than present records suggest. My own field records show that I have seen the species for the last six years. It has been taken at the static Pitsford light traps for the past four years.    

L.O.N.:  Unrecorded.

First Record:  1975, Deanshanger school grounds, Brown.