Food Plant: Quercus (Oak), occasionally Castanea (Sweet Chestnut)

Egg: Upper surface of the leaf

Mine: October - November

Notes: A gallery leads to blotch with slit in lower epidermis. Larva white, head and pronotal plate blackish-brown (as shown).

Data: 18.xi.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds