Status and Distribution
Primarily an adventive introduced with its main foodplant (potato). Taken at light on a few occasions suggesting it may possibly be an occasional migrant into southern England.
National Status:
Adventive
Bradley & Fletcher no:
825
Photographer: Photo wanted
Provisional Map
Maps updated with all data received by February 2018.
Dissection Group
Foodplant and Larval Feeding Signs
Imported Potato (Solanum tuberosum) and has been found feeding as a larva on an imported tomato from the Canary Islands.
In Europe associated with other Solanaceae spp. such as Solanum melongena, S. dulcamara (bittersweet), S. nigrum (black nightshade), Nicotiana glauca, N. tabacum, Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato), and Lycium europaeum.