Yorkshire Status: Rare and very local resident.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Very locally fairly common.

2013 (CHF): A rare moth in the county. The only recent records are from the Doncaster area. Adults fly around their foodplant (dogwood) in the late afternoon sunshine but it is usually recorded as a leaf mine. A short corridor close to the margin of the leaf suddenly widens into a large blotch that often overruns the corridor. The larva then makes an oval excision, 5.5-7mm long and drops therein to the ground. A characteristic feature is a number of test punctures of the leaf made by the female in preparation for oviposition - this can be seen as a curving row of 2-7 brown spots perpendicular to the initial corridor. The similar Antispila treischkiella does not show the trial slits and the excision is smaller - 4-5.5mm along the longer axis.

Argus 90, 2020: Seemingly scarce; there are only a handful of previous records in vice-counties 62 to 64.

VC61. North Cave wetlands, mines on dogwood 11.7.2020 (ADN). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

VC63. Armthorpe, mines on dogwood 20.7.2020 (UR).

Verification Grade Comment: As long as mine size is measured

Recorded in 9 (5%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1868. Last Recorded in 2022. Additional Stats

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