Davey, P., 2009: A very local and mainly coastal species in southern Britain, the larva feeding in the crown of the root of wormwood (Artemesia absinthium). In Dorset, the moth is confined mainly to Portland where wormwood, once frequent, has decreased alarmingly in the past twenty years. Wormwood also occurs extremely locally on Purbeck and the species has been discovered there too. Existing colonies of the moth are therefore threatened at the present time.

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