Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: July to October

Pupa: In a cocoon under a membrane on underside of leaf.

Notes: Early mine a narrow gallery leading to a squarish or triangular blotch. Then forms up to three successive cones by folding the lobe of a leaf downwards(the cone is flattened above when the specimen was pressed). This species cannot be told from Ca;optilia robustella without breeding or examining the pupae

Data: herbarium specimen coll. Rob Edmunds

Image:© Rob Edmunds