Identification

The only way to separate adults of A. ciliella and A. heracliana is by dissection.  Counting the lines in the cilia near the base of the hindwing is now considered unreliable.

Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present June-August, in leaflets rolled into tubes or sometimes on flowers or fruits.  Adults July-May.

Larval foodplants

Many species of umbellifers, especially Angelica.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Glenluce, Wigtownshire, on 24th April 1954 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, who found the first record for Kirkcudbrightshire which was of larvae found on angelica at Baraer on 9th July 1982, with the Dumfriesshire first being found at Holmhead on Lochar Moss on 26th April 2014.