Recording method

Comes to light.  Males rest by day on tree-trunks.  Females have reduced wings and may sometimes be found low down on trunks at nightfall.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-October, usually feeding between spun flat leaves.  Adults fly March-May.

Larval foodplants

A wide variety of shrubs and deciduous trees, particularly oak species.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Malice in Dumfries on 14th April 1876 by Robert Service, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at Auchenfad on 13th April 1980 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland, with the Wigtownshire first being found at Glenstockadale on 13th March 2012.