Nepticulidae

04.099 Large Birch Dot Ectoedemia occultella (Linnaeus, 1767)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 3 to 4.5mm

Habitats: Where birches are present.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a round, dark centred, black-brown, upper-surface blotch in a birch leaf. The blotch appears to lack an initial gallery. There are often several mines in a leaf. It pupates in a cocoon in the leaf litter.