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ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
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Gracillariidae
Mine starts as long tortuous gallery in lower epidermis; then larva moves to upper epidermis and makes a large blotch astride midrib, spinning causes leaf to close over mine and finally almost conceal it [6-7+10-4] Aspilapteryx tringipennella 294

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