Peter Davey / Phil Sterling, 2020: A very rare species restricted to the Breck district in East Anglia and a few coastal localities in Kent, the larva feeding mainly on smooth hawk’s-beard Crepis capillaris and reported on mouse-ear hawkweed Pilosella officinarum. In Dorset, there are just two historic records for this species, one from Parley in 1946 (Scarsdale-Brown, S. C.), and a second from Studland in 1884 (Bankes, E. R.), both localities potentially hosting the foodplants and thus this... Read More

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