Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-July, feeding in a spun terminal shoot.  Adults fly June-September.

Larval foodplants

Willow species.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire, on 15th July 1983 by Sir Arthur Duncan, the specimen now at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at an unknown site by a person unknown prior to 2001 (MOGBI data).