Food Plant: Quercus (Oak)
Egg: Upper surface of the leaf
Mine: October - November
Notes: A gallery which leads to blotch (no slit in lower epidermis so the frass accumulates in the blotch). Larva greenish or yellowish white, head and pronotal plate reddish-brown. The dark head distinguishes it from E.albifasciella, which has a pale brown head.
Data: herbarium specimen coll. Rob Edmunds
Image:© Rob Edmunds
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