Tischeriidae

10.003 Bramble Blotch-miner Coptotriche marginea (Haworth, 1828)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 3.5 to 4.5mm

Habitats: The moth may be found anywhere that brambles are present.

Habits: The moth occasionally comes to light.

Foodplant: The larva feeds on bramble species in a short white to yellow-brown gallery mine that widens into a long, upper-surface, elliptical blotch. It pupates in the mine.