Yorkshire Status: Fairly common and widespread resident.

This large and attractive species is widespread across the county wherever there is birch woodland, so it is less common in the north-west and in the east of VC61. It tends to wander and often turns up in gardens. It has a tendency to rest outside the trap rather than enter it. It is doing well in the county and numbers are stable. In good quality woodland counts are frequently into double figures, the maximum being 26 at Wykeham Causeway on 30/6/2020.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Although rather patchily recorded, this species is probably common in most birch woods in all five vice-counties and it is sometimes also found well away from such places. It can sometimes be found more easily on a sheet at light and it often turns up late than most other species (PQW pers. comm.), which may be the reason for the paucity of records.

Recorded in 145 (73%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1883. Last Recorded in 2023. Additional Stats

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