Yorkshire Status: Very rare and very local resident.

This scarce species flies later than other Lutestrings. It is a moth of long-standing oak woodland and is rarely seen in the county. There are some similarities with Satin Lutestring in that there is a population in South Cumbria extending into north Lancashire. This accounts for the occasional records we see in the extreme west of VC64, most recently one north of Clitheroe in 2019. We have old records further east. One of these was in 1938 from Buttercrambe close to the VC61/62 border. It is very exciting that on 17/8/2023 one was trapped at Pretty Wood, south east of Castle Howard. This is not too far from Buttercrambe and it poses the question as to whether this moth is another one which has been hiding under our noses for many years. It may well occur in other stands of ancient woodland in the area - there are several to explore. There are records from the 1960s and 1970s from the Sheffield area and again it is not impossible that it still occurs in this area.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: This is a rare moth in Yorkshire although the distribution given in Skinner (1984) suggests it should be more frequent. The only record since the last list (YNU, 1970) is of one from Eccleshall Woods, Sheffield in the 1970s (Garland, 1979).

	Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Recorded in 15 (8%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1883. Last Recorded in 2023. Additional Stats

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