Recording method

Readily disturbed from the foodplant by day.  Flies at dusk.

Life cycle

Larvae present September-May, mining the bark by starting upwards towards the tip.

Larval foodplants

Broom or Dyer’s Greenweed.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Castlehill in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire, on 2nd July 1981 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found near Dalry on 3rd August 1993, with the Wigtownshire first being found at an unknown site by a person unknown prior to 1996 (BRC/MOGBI data).