Food Plant: Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore) only.

Mine: Univoltine: early summer.

Notes: A large, upper surface marginal blotch, usually going brown and usually with an excised hole, which is characteristic of Heterarthrus species. A widespread miner of Sycamore. The larva has some deticulations on the anal ring (as shown)

Data: 27.vi.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds