Nepticulidae

04.031 Wild-service Dot Stigmella mespilicola (Frey, 1856)

pRDB2

Similar species:

Forewing: 2 to 2.5mm?

Habitats: Deciduous woodland.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a short, full depth, gradually widening gallery mine with linear frass in a leaf of Wild Service Tree, Common Whitebeam or Swedish Whitebeam. The mine is widened at the end to form a blotch. It pupates in a cocoon in the leaf litter.