Recording method

Occasionally comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae: April-June, at first in an unopened leaf-bud (this feeding is conspicuous later as an arc of holes near the leaf-base).  Later in spun leaves, often spinning one above another.  Adults: June-September.

Larval foodplants

Elm species or, less often, Field Maple.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found near Monreith, Wigtownshire, during July 1899 by K. J. Morton, specimen at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at Kirkdale Bank on 10th July 1999 during a ‘Grey Daggers’ Moth Group field meeting.