Gracillariidae

15.0321 Dungeness Parornix Parornix atripalpella Wahlström, 1979

Immigrant / a possible colonist at Dungeness

Similar species:

Forewing: 4 to 4.5mm

Habitats: Deciduous woodland, scrub and hedgerows?

Habits: The moth comes to light.

Foodplant: The early stages have not been recorded in Britain. On the European mainland it is recorded as feeding in a folded leaf of Blackthorn where it eats all the parenchyma and leaves the leaf looking white and conspicuous. It pupates within the folded leaf in a white cocoon near the leaf tip or on the midrib.