Lep:Nepticulidae
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4.062 Stigmella samiatella (Zeller, 1839)
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long mine

 

Food Plant: Quercus (Oak), Castanea (Sweet Chestnut).

Egg: Underside of leaf

Mine: June - July, September - October

Notes: The gallery is long and broad, frass dispersed in later part of mine (as above). Mine shown on Castanea (Sweet Chestnut)

Data: 29.ix.2009, Waresley Park, Huntingdonshire, VC31

Image:© Barry Dickerson

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