Recording method

Flies in sunshine.

Life cycle

Mines: May-June.  Adults fly April-May.

Larval foodplant

Birch species.

History

The first definite record for Dumfries & Galloway was of leaf-mines found on Betula in Hannaston Wood SSSI, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 22nd June 1996 during a Scottish Entomologists’ gathering.  The first Dumfriesshire record was found at an unknown site by an unknown person sometime before 2010 (Scottish micro-moth data).