Size:
7-16 mm.
Host plant: Carduacea.
Life cycle: Adults in Late February-April.
Distribution: Iberian Peninsula and North
Africa from Morocco to Libya.
Cyrenaica and Tripolitania.
Cyrenaica:
Tukrah, 17/04/2003. Haniyah, 30/03/2005, P. Weill Leg.
Tripolitania: As Sarraj, 02/03/2002 and Az Zahrah, 13/03/2003
and 06/03/2004. Sidi as Sa'ih, 09/04/2005, P. Weill Leg.
Left specimen (male) from Cyrenaica, right one (female) from
Tipolitania.