Recording method
Can be disturbed from its foodplant.
Life cycle
Larvae present June-April, adults April-June.
Larval foodplants
Flowers of Field Wood-rush or Heath Wood-rush.
History
The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Abbey Burn Foot, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 30th May 1965 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, while the first for Dumfriesshire was of two caught by sweeping at Craigmichan Scars, Selcoth, Moffat on 11th July 2014.