Nepticulidae

04.094 Angle-barred Rose Dot Ectoedemia angulifasciella (Stainton, 1849)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 2.5 to 3mm

Habitats: Downland, old grassland, meadows and other sites where the foodplant is present.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a strongly contorted gallery mine with dispersed frass in a leaf of a rose or sometimes Salad Burnet. The mine later follows the leaf margin then widens into an elongate blotch. The mined area is often purple-red. It pupates in a cocoon in the leaf litter.