Recording method

Flies in sunshine.

Life cycle

Larvae: June-July, August-May.  Adults:April-July, August-November.

Larval foodplants

Common Nettle, Small Nettle, Pellitory-of-the-wall.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was published in Stephens (1834) with the Rev. William Little recording it at Raehills, Dumfriesshire, while the first for Wigtownshire was of larvae found on nettle on 25th April 1954 at Torrs Warren by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, with the Kirkcudbrightshire first being found at Portling on 6th September 1978 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland.