Food Plant: Citrus spp.

Mine: throughout the year

Notes: A tropical species which is now added to the British list after moths were bred from tenanted mines on Lemon trees from a Garden centre in Burford. An old vacated mine on the underside of a leaf is shown, with the fold in which pupation took place on the leaf edge. Most specimens are intercepted at points of entry (see: Newsletter) and this is a pest of commercial citrus orchards. Makes distinctive track mines with a strong central frass line on fruits or leaves.

Data: x.2012 ex mine 07.x.2012, Burford, Oxon, VC23

Image:© Robert Homan