Life cycle

Mines: July and September.  Mines are indistinguishable from those of S. anomalella.  Adults fly in May and August.

Larval foodplants

Burnet Rose only.

History

The first for Dumfries & Galloway was of leaf-mines found at Ardwell, Wigtownshire, on 18th July 1994 by A. M. Emmet.