Wingspan 15 to 21 mm. It gets its name from the six yellowish bands on the abdomen and has mostly transparent wings, only edged in scales.

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Inhabits various locations where the food plants are present, particularly on calcareous soils including chalk downland, quarries and sea-cliffs.

The day-flying adults are on the wing between June and August.

The foodplants are the bird's-foot trefoils (genus Lotus) or Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria), the larvae feeding in the rootstock.

Six-belted Clearwing is distributed mainly in the southern half of Britain and was previously believed to be very uncommon. In a recent survey to determine the status of all macro moths in Britain this species was classified as Nationally Scarce B but the introduction of an effective pheromone lure for this species has shown it to be more common than previously thought.

Generally common in VC55.