Recording method

Occasionally comes to light.

Life cycle

Larvae are present June-July, August-October.  Larva creates a gallery mine leading to a small blotch, after which it folds down the edge or tip of a leaf and feeds within.  Adults fly April-June, July-October.

Larval foodplants

Birch species, usually seedlings.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was found at an unknown site in Dumfriesshire by a person unknown prior to 1978, while the first for Kirkcudbrightshire was found at Wood of Cree on 25th June 2005 during a Scottish Entomologists’ gathering, with the Wigtownshire first being found at Glassoch on 27th August 2013.