Gracillariidae

15.041 Plane Leaf-miner Phyllonorycter platani (Staudinger, 1870)

Local

Similar species:

Forewing: 4 to 5mm

Habitats: Parkland, street trees and gardens.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva forms a long, lower surface gallery mine in a leaf of London Plane which widens into a greyish green, irregularly lobed blotch. This eventually becomes orange brown with a number of folds. The upperside of the mine is mottled due to the holes eaten in the upper surface.