Food Plant: Platanus spp. (Plane) Platanus orientalis and P.hybrida

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: June-July: October - November

Notes: Forms twisting gallery mines with contorted (or partly linear) frass. Exits upper surface. Found from Portugal to Croatia and also Macedonia and Greece. This is new to the British Iles (Richards, 2024) being found in a park in North London, with 'probables' from Cambridge.

Data: 29.x.2006, Mahon, Menorca, Spain

Image:© Rob Edmunds

References:
Richards NJ (2024)- Acalyptris platani (Müller-Rutz, 1934) (Lep.: Nepticulidae) new to the British Isles., Entomologst's Rec. j. Var. 136(1) p36-38