Identification

Similar to related species. Dissection is reccomended for confident identification.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Flight period

July-August.

Larval foodplants

Mosses.

Habitat

Decidous woodland.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Kirkconnell, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 25th July 1977 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Dumfriesshire was found at Barony College, Parkgate, on 10th June 1982, during a Scottish Entomologists’ gathering, with the Wigtownshire first being found at Newton Stewart on 20th July 1995.