Status: Widespread and locally common (scarce in Wales & Ireland, less common in Scotland)
Habitat: Various, mainly damp
Host plant: Plantains (Plantago spp.), occasionally on other plants.
Overwintering: As adults, and possibly larvae (as a teneral adult has been recorded in March)
Food: Adults on leaves (and possibly pollen), larvae at roots
Other notes: Dissection of genitalia needed for separation from L. melanocephalus & L. plantagomaritimus.