Recording method

Flies in morning sunshine.  Later rests low down on grass stems.

Life cycle

Larvae present April-May, at first mining a grass leaf then boring into the stem.  Adults fly July-September.

Larval foodplants

Species of Couch grass (Elytrigia) and Brome (Bromus).

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Penpont, Dumfriesshire, on 3rd August 1975 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was trapped at Blackford on 31st July 1977 by E. C. Pelham-Clinton, specimen at National Museums Scotland.