Infrequently recorded across Scotland with just a few records from South Uist and Eriskay. Flighting from May to August over damp moorland, boggy areas and scrub. The larval food-plants are birches (Betula spp.) and heaths.

References: 
Sterling, P. & Parsons, M. (2023 second edition). Field Guide to the Micro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland.