Host-plants. Unknown in the Crimea; probably Quercus spp.
Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Mediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Great Britain to Finland, Crimea, and Turkey.
Material examined. CRIMEA: 2 ♂, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, at light, 08– 11.vii. 1988, leg. R. Puplesis; 1 ♂, the same locality, at light, 23.vi. 1988, leg. Yu. Budashkin, genitalia slide no. AG 113 ♂; 3 ♂, the same locality, at light, 26–31.vii. 2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.
Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread and abundant (no mines observed, collected at light only).