Food Plant: Dock species (Rumex), including R.acetosella (Sheep's sorrel)

Mine: Bivoltine, May to September

Pupa: External to the mine. The pupa has anterior and posterior spiracles

Notes: A common miner. The mine starts as a short corridor on the lower surface and then becomes a large upper surface blotch . Several larvae can mine together (as shown in the anterior view ). The mine shown is on Dock.

Data: 23.v.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds