Lep:Bucculatricidae
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271 Bucculatrix albedinella (Zeller, 1839)
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dorsal view of larva

 

Food Plant: Food Plant: Ulmus (elm)

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: July -September

Notes: A gallery with linear frass, and one or more short frass-free projections from the mine. The larva is dark green in colour dorsally and yellow laterally and ventrally, with irregular and interrupted dark purple/brown paradorsal spots.

Data: 24.x.2006, Farnham, Surrey, VC17

Image:© Graham Collins

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