Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-August, at first mining a leaf then, if on a thistle or burdock, in a web on the underside; if on knapweed or Saw-wort, in a leaf rolled downwards.  Adults August-June.

Larval foodplants

Knapweed species, thistles, burdock, Saw-wort.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Killantringan Lighthouse, Wigtownshire, on 24th October 1914 by D. A. Mowat the keeper, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at the Baron’s Craig Hotel at Rockcliffe on 27th May 1962 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, with the Dumfriesshire first being found at Closeburn on 20th August 1970 by Sir Arthur Duncan, the specimen now at National Museums Scotland.