Food Plant: Acer platanoides (Norway Maple)

Mine: May

Notes: Forms blotch mines on the leaf tips of very young, tender leaves. The mine has a characteristically speckled appearance due to frass deposition. The larva is pale in colour and is seen in lateral view above.

Data: preserved specimen 17.v.2006, Zwett, Austria, Ewald Altenhofer

Image:© Rob Edmunds