General comments:
Immigrant.

We have Hertfordshire two records. The first was caught at light in Totteridge on 22nd July 1956 (Ian Lorimer, Entomologist's Gazette : 20 and Bell, 1959). The second was in David Wilson's garden light trap at Much Hadham on 31st July 1982 (reported in Bretherton & Chalmers-Hunt, Entomologists Record : 151). The moth is resident in Wales, the north-west, Scotland and Ireland and during the 1950s underwent a southwards range expansion of which the Totteridge example was presumably a part; the origin of the Much Hadham example is less clear. In Middlesex, one was noted in the 1950s on a Biological records Centre recording card completed by Lord Talbot de Malahide for the ten-kilometre square TL29. There are no further data. Lord Talbot de Malahide was British Ambassador to Laos in the mid 1950s.

	Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 2 (5%) of 41 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1950. Last Recorded in 1982. Additional Stats

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