Identification

A broad, unbroken longitudinal stripe.

Recording method

Attracted to light

Flight period

July-August

Larval foodplants

A moss Campylopus flexuosus and Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium). 

Habitat

Bogs and moorland

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Black Loch, near Ae on 31st July 1950 by Sir Arthur Duncan, who also found the first for Kirkcudbrightshire at Kirkconnell on 11th August 1971, both specimens at National Museums Scotland, with the Wigtownshire first being found at Corsemalzie on 29th June 1988 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton.