Last modified: May 7, 2021, 11:53 a.m.
A very rare and local species in the southern part of Belgium. Not often recorded.
Native
From March till May.
The larva lives on a hole range of plants and trees: Vacinnium, Calluna, Centaurea scabiosa, Centaurea nigra, Carlina acaulis, Cirsium sp., Artemisia vulgaris, Senecio doronicum, Senecio sp., Daucus carota, Peucedanum palustre, Anthriscus sp., Potentilla anserina, Filipendula ulmaria, Lotus corniculatus, Trifolium pratense, Origanum vulgare, Lysimachia vulgaris sp., Knautia dipsacifolia, Valeriana sp., Andromeda polifolia, Salix caprea, Fraxinus excelsior...etc.
Moorland and heathland.