Yponomeutidae

16.019 White-headed Drab Paraswammerdamia albicapitella (Scharfenberg, 1805)

Common

Similar species:

Forewing: 5 to 6mm

Habitats: Deciduous woodland, hedgerows, scrub or wherever else the foodplant is found.

Habits:

Foodplant: The larva at first feeds in a short silvery gallery mine on Blackthorn. Then after overwintering under a silk web at the joint where a twig joins the main stem. It feeds gregariously on the leaves with a small number of other larvae and does this in a flimsy web situated on a sheltered low branch. It pupates in a white silk cocoon on a twig or a leaf.