General comments:
extremely local resident and Vagrant.

This is a moth of coastal habitats, eastwards via the Thames Estuary into Essex and Suffolk. It was a regular in the Rothamsted Light trap at Heathrow Airport from at least 2007 to 2010 and is presumed residential there - potentially still persisting. The nearby report from Osterley Park is more likely of a wanderer as, surely, is the third map dot from Enfield. Historic records are from 'Hertford' (Stephens, 1834. Illustrations of British Entomology) and Bishops Stortford, 20 May 1961 - the latter clearly a wanderer from some distance (Bell, 1964). An example at Harefield in August 2024 is the first reported in Middlesex since 2015.

Recorded in 5 (12%) of 41 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1834. Last Recorded in 2015. Additional Stats

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