Food Plant: Geum aleppicum (Common Avens), G x 'Borisii' (Boris avens), G.urbanum (Herb Bennett)

Mine: Bivoltine: summer & early autumn.

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: A full depth blotch. Frass black and plentiful. Local. (Formerly called Metallus gei).

Data: herbarium specimen, coll.Rob Edmunds

Image:© Rob Edmunds