I took an example of the Concolorous at light on the night of 28 May. This follows four records at Bawdsey in the last week of May 2017.
Whether or not these are strays from the continent, or from an undiscovered local colony, who knows! A record from Lydd-on-sea, Dungeness over last weekend would suggest immigration, as the moth’s known haunts are many miles from south-east Kent.
Wakely and Emmet recorded two examples of the Concolorous at Thorpeness in June 1966 with subsequent records from the same locality in 1974. Twenty-first century records have come from Orfordness and Woodbridge.
I would be interested to hear if any other recorders have picked this species up recently.
A photograph of one example from Bawdsey – taken in 2017 – is below.
