Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-July.  At first mines the stem then moves to the flower-head.  Adults: July-May.

Larval foodplants

Water-dropwort (Oenanthe) species, Whorled Caraway,

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was of a larva found at Needles Eye, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 21st July 1963 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, while the first for Dumfriesshire was found at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish on 21st August 1979 by Sir Arthur Duncan, with the Wigtownshire first also being found by Duncan at Torrs on 14th April 1983, both specimens at National Museums Scotland.