Lyonetiidae

21.005 Broom Stem-miner Leucoptera spartifoliella (Hübner, [1813])

Local

Similar species:

Forewing: 3.5 to 4.5mm

Habitats: Where the foodplant is found.

Habits: The moth is easily disturbed by day and flies at dusk.

Foodplant: The larva makes a surface bark mine that heads upwards on Common Broom or Dyer's Greenweed. The mine is shallower and browner at the start than that of Trifurcula immundella. It pupates in a white cocoon spun to a stem of the foodplant.