Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Mine: Univoltine: summer

Pupa: Outside the mine

Notes: A large, whitish, upper surface blotch. Often pyriform. Widespread. As the mine ages it can appear as a large brown blotch. The immature larva is shown. It has a pale dorsal prothoracic plate. In ventral view the spots on the meso and metahorax are more clearly seen.

Data: 24.vi.2005, Fleet, Hants,VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds