Heliomata glarearia ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Host plants:
The caterpillar lives oligophagous at various Fabaceae as Hippocrepis, Medicago, Lotus etc.

Habitat:
Heliomata glarearia inhabits warm dry grasslands as limestone juniper meadows, steppe slopes and other places, often on calcareous soil.

Life cycle:
The moths fly from April to August at lower altitudes in two, at higher ones in most cases in a single generation. The caterpillar can be found from June to September. The pupa overwinters.

Endangerment: endangered

Endangerment factors:
Heliomata glarearia is threatened by habitat loss due to the known usual factors (fertilization, intensification, transition into fields, succession, grazing abandonment, overbuilding, reforestation, eutrophication from the air, etc.).

Remarks:
Heliomata glarearia occurs from Southern France and Central Europe across the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe to Kazakhstan.