Food Plant: Carduus, Cirsium spp. (Thistles) Tussilago (Coltsfoot)

Mine: June-November (two broods which overlap)

Pupa: On the ground in the leaf litter

Notes: The initial mine is whitish and extends along the midrib and branches into blotches. Older mine are brownish.

National Status: Common

Bradley No: 822

Gelechiid Recording Scheme: link

Data: 26.ix.2004.2004, Hayling Island, Hants, VC11, John Langmaid

Image:© Rob Edmunds

References:
Beavan S.D. & Heckford R.J. (2024) The biology and nomenclature of Scrobipalpa freyii (Scott, 1859) sp. rev., comb. nov. (Lep.: Gelechiidae, previously S. pauperella (Heinemann, 1870) syn. nov., and comparison of the larva, pupa and genitalia with those of Scrobipalpa acuminatella (Sircom, 1850) -Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 136(4) p161-181