Ectoedemia angulifasciella

Wingspan 5 to 6 mm.

Adult Leafmine

Leafmine occurs on Rose (and sometimes on Salad Burnet. http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Lepidoptera/E.angulifasciella.htm

Gardens, parks and other areas where the larval foodplants occur.

The adults fly during July and the mines can be found from September to November.

The larva creates a mine in a Rose (Rosa) leaf, beginning as a contorted gallery filled with brownish frass and then widening into a blotch with central or dispersed blackish frass. The young larva itself has a chain of dark spots on the abdomen. In later instars, these spots become smaller and less noticeable, and the green gut can be seen.

A locally common species occurring in England, Wales and southern Scotland. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = C (very scarce resident or rare migrant).