Food Plant: Pteridium (Bracken), Dryopteris , recorded from Athyrium (Lady Fern)elsewhere.
Mine: Univoltine: summer.
Notes: An upperside blotch at the tip of a pinna lobe. Locally common in shady places. A similar mine is made on Bracken - Chirosia flavipennis and adults must be reaed to identify.
Data: 19.vii.2003, Fleet, Hants, VC12
Image:© Rob Edmunds
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