Recording method

Flies in sunshine and occasionally comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae May-March, Adults April-June.

Larval foodplants

Hawthorn species, Rose species, Sea Buckthorn, sometimes other rosaceous trees and shrubs.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Lincluden Abbey, Dumfriesshire, on 4th May 1878 by members of the Natural History Society, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at Palnackie on 28th May 1962 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, specimen at National Museums Scotland.