Larix larch
(For a dichotomous table for galls on Larix by Hans Roskam click here)Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a fleck mine => 2
1b small gallery => 4
1c larva makes a mine in the top part of a needle; a hole (closed with silk) is made about a cm below the tip, from there the larva works upwards; after hibernation the larva lives free: Exoteleia dodecella
1d galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
Dichotomous table for leafminers
1a fleck mine => 2
1b small gallery => 4
1c larva makes a mine in the top part of a needle; a hole (closed with silk) is made about a cm below the tip, from there the larva works upwards; after hibernation the larva lives free: Exoteleia dodecella
1d galls, etc => Tables for all parasites per species
2a larva mines from a case: Coleophora laricella
2b larva mines from between a few, more or loosely spun needles => 3
3a larva: light brown, with a little darker brown pinacula: Spilonota laricana
3b greenish with brownish black pinacula: Archips oporana
4a associated with an egg in the shape of a fruitcake: Coleophora laricella
4b egg, if at all visible, flat, scale-like; normally no leaf miners: Aphelia viburniana & Argyrotaenia ljungiana