Food Plant: Cornus sanguinea (Dogwood)

Egg: in a slit near the leaf margin, on the underside of a leaf

Mine: August-October

Notes: The initial mine is a short gallery at the leaf edge, which expands to form a blotch. The larva cuts out an oval case 4-5mm long. This was identified as Antispila treitschkiella until the paper of van Nieukerken et al (2018) showed that it had been wrongly synonomised and was in fact Antispila petryi on Cornus sanguinea. Antispila treitschkiella is found on Cornus mas and is bivoltine, whereas petryi is univoltine. Habitat where small numbers of mines were found annually at the entrance to a small business park. Over the winter of 2022 this hedge was removed and is now a DIY store car park.

Data: 2022, Norfolk, VC28

Image:© Rob Edmunds