Jenyns’ notes suggest that this species was once quite common across the chalklands of the county. However, it has since been lost from Cambridgeshire. This is thought in part to be due to their chalk grassland habitats becoming overgrown when myxomatosis wiped out grazing rabbit populations in the mid-1900s. That being said, in recent years the species has been expanding in range and number across southern central England, so whether it could ever recolonise the county in coming decades remains to be seen.