Status: Scattered, mainly in the north and west. Scarce (Notable A) but also RDB listed.
RDB Category: Vulnerable (RDB2)
Habitat: Various boggy areas with Cyperaceae (sedges and club-rushes); in Scotland, especially associated with beds of beak-sedges, Rhynchospora spp.
Host plant: Various Cyperaceae, especially bottle sedge, Carex rostrata.
Overwintering: As adults.
Food: Adults on pollen, larval food unknown.

Status: Widespread and locally common, especially in the south. As far north as SW Scotland.
Habitat: On emergent vegetation, including reedbeds at the edges of various water-bodies and wetland/damp habitats.
Host plant: Branched bur-reed, Sparganium erectum. Possibly also other wetland/emergent plants.
Overwintering: Unknown.
Food: Adults on upper epidermis and pulp of leaves, and possibly also pollen; larvae uncertain but may be found between leaves, eggs being laid between submerged parts.

Status: Widespread but scattered, though can be locally common. Scarce (Notable A).
Habitat: Sedges at the edge of water and wetlands.
Host plant: Various Cyperaceae (sedges and club-rush) and other wetland plants.
Overwintering: Unknown
Food: Adults on pollen of Cyperaceae, larvae on rhizomes and roots of common club-rush Schoenoplectus lacustris.

Status: Locally common in England, scattered in Wales and Ireland, not recorded from Scotland.
Habitat: Various habitats where the host plant is present.
Host plant: Sweet-grasses Glyceria spp, mainly reed sweet-grass G. maxima, sometimes plicate sweet-grass G. notata.
Overwintering: Three-year life cycle, adults overwinter in cocoons.
Food: Adults on leaves, larvae at roots (also of branched bur-reed Sparganium erectum).

Status: Sparsely scattered in the southern half of Britain, including Ireland. Scarce (Notable A)
Habitat: On host plants in the middle of dykes.
Host plant: Arrowhead, Sagittaria sagittifolia, possibly also water-plantains, Alisma spp.
Overwintering: Two-year life cycle; larvae overwinter as 1st instar (winter 1) and 5th instar (winter 2)
Food: Adults on upper surface of leaves, larvae submerged on roots and leaf axils.