Recording method

Comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae present May-July, August-September, first in a short gallery, then in a blotch mine, then rolling a leaf transversely downwards from the tip.  Adults June-August, September-May.

Larval foodplants

Birch species.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at Kirkconnell Flow NNR, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 30th August 1978 by Sir Arthur Duncan, specimen at National Museums Scotland, while the first for Dumfriesshire was found at an unknown site by a person unknown prior to 1985 (BRC/MOGBI data), with the Wigtownshire first being found at Torrs Warren on 26th June 2005.