Yorkshire Status: Fairly common but rather local resident.

In 1907 Porritt described this species as "not a common species but widely distributed". I think we would describe it in different terms now. In coastal areas and in the south east of the county it is still reasonably common, and a large proportion of our records come from the Spurn area. Elsewhere is extremely local. There have only ever been two records for VC65, and it is rarely encountered in the western half of VC63 or 64. Further to our north, it is mainly a coastal moth, and it appears to have disappeared from some inland sites. It is probably in a very slow decline in Yorkshire. It is a moth of "unimproved" grassy places and seems happiest in calcareous areas.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Although many records are still from lowland sites, the habitat preferences of this species do not seem as restrictive as suggested previously (YNU, 1970) [apparently confined to the lower ground from which all records come]. There are now also many more coastal records.

Recorded in 87 (44%) of 200 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1880.
Last Recorded in 2023.
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