Host plants:
The larvae feed on Artemisia herba-alba.
Habitat:
Cucullia bubaceki inhabits steppe areas, rocky slopes and heavily grazed pastures with the host plant.
Life cycle:
The pupa hibernates. The moths occur in several generations from late March to autumn. Most often the following scheme can be recognized: A first quite complete generation appears in spring (late March to May). A part of the resulting pupae develop without dormancy and result in moths from mid-June, other pupae go in dormancies of various duration. They result in moths from August to late autiumn, some even not until next spring. This repeats in a similar way. Main flight times are thus spring (April/May) and autumn (September/October), main larval times May/June and September to November.
Endangerment factors:
The steppe habitats have in many regions already been destroyed to a large extent by EU-funded intense agriculture.
Remarks:
Cucullia bubaceki occurs in Spain from the northeast (strongholds in the Monegros and generally the Ebro valley) across the center (e.g. Madrid, Teruel, Cuenca) southward to the region of Murcia. There are also (reliable?) records from NW-Africa (Atlas).