Food Plant: Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn), Chaenomeles japonica (Quince) , Betula (Birch) spp., Cotoneaster spp.

Egg: under the leaf cuticle

Mine: July-August

Notes: Forms blotch mines from an initial gallery. Rediscovered in the UK after over 100 years. The latest sighting of the moth was in Somerset in 2007

Data: viii.2003, Ijzevoorde, Gelderland, The Netherlands, Jaap Zwier, Willem Ellis

Image:© Willem Ellis