Nepticulidae

04.022 Purple-shot Dot Stigmella regiella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)

Local

Similar species:

Forewing: 2 to 2.5mm

Habitats: Wherever Hawthorn grow.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a narrow gallery mine filled with rufous frass in a leaf of Hawthorn. The mine usually follows the leaf margin before forming a pale yellow blotch containing black frass at a right angle to the gallery. It pupates in a cocoon in the leaf litter.