Forewing Length: 9-12mm;
Wingspan: 17-25mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
June, September	June - July September - April	May July - August	May - October (Earliest: 11.6)

Biotopes:	Wet Meadows	Hedge Rows
Food: (Larva) (Oligophagous)	Succisa pratensis
Parasitoids:	Diadegma aculeatum Larva	Cotesia sericea Larva
Other Possible Parasitoids:	Many Ichneumonidae Larvae	Several Braconidae Larvae

Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium: Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla
Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla
Lepiforum: Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla
Plant Parasites of Europe: Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla

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