A very rare and local species in Belgium, not often recorded. Distribution after 2004 is based on individuals who have been examined for genitalia. Nowadays seems to be a coastal species.
Janmoulle E. 1959b.
Notes sur les Microlépidoptères de Belgique. V. Révision des exemplaires belges des genres: Homoeosoma Curtis (Pyralidae, Phycitinae), Oxyptilus Zeller (s.l.) (Pterophoridae), Cnephasia Curtis (Tort., Tortricinae), Bactra Stephens (Tort., Olethreutinae). — Bulletin du Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique
35(27):
1–32. On page 9.