Nepticulidae

04.016 Plain Rose Dot Stigmella spinosissimae (Waters, 1928)

pRDB2

Similar species:

Forewing: 1.5 to 2mm

Habitats: Limestone downland and sand-dunes

Habits:

Foodplant: A gallery mine in a leaf of Burnet Rose. The mine is indistinguishable from that of Stigmella anomalella. The summer generation pupates on a leaf or at the base of a leaf stalk.