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

Egg: Upper side of leaf

Mine: September - November

Notes: A whitish blotch on upper side of leaf. As the mine ages it can become a very pale brown colour (as shown). The pale yellow larva (illustrated) has a brown anal plate and the prothoracic plate has a median sulcus (as shown).

Data: 10.x.2004, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Image:© Rob Edmunds