Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Common.

Identification

Usually distinctive..

Recording method

Can be disturbed by day from bare ground and rocky crevices. Attracted to light.

Life cycle

One generation. Overwinters as a small larva near the bottom of the foodplant.  Larvae September to late May. Pupates among plant debris or in the earth.

Larval foodplants

Sea Campion, Thrift, Common Rockrose and other herbaceous plants.

Habitat

Mainly coastal locations, rocky coastlines, grassy banks and dunes.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1870 for VC73 in Colvend parish by White, in 1819 for VC74 near Monreith by Morton, and in 1943 for VC72 at Tynron by Duncan.