Distribution:  (First record: 11/07/1975 at Elvaston Park )  -  (Last record: 28/08/2024 at Glossop )  -   In 1986 described as a rare vagrant in Derbyshire, with only three records. One in 1975, one in 1983 and one in 1990. The next records were six more in 2003, 2004 & 2005 and a single record in 2006. Since, it still remains a rare species, widespread, but only recorded in small numbers each year.The increase in lichen, the larval food plant, growing on trees such as hawthorn, blackthorn, apple and larch, may have helped the moth spread its range.