Enteucha acetosae (Stainton, 1854)
sorrel pigmy

Rumex alpestris, Triest; from Klimesch (1940b)
Rumex acetosella, Britain, Norfolk, The Brecks © Rob Edmunds
mine
Oviposition at the leaf underside, usually near a vein. The mine is a narrow, hardly widening, corridor that makes about 5 whole of half circles closely around the egg. The leaf tissue around th mine is intensely reddened; often several mines in a leaf. Frass in a narrow central line. Pupation outside the mine.
hostplants
Polygonaceae, narrowly monophagous
Rumex acetosa, acetosella, arifolius.
phenology
Probably three generations in western and central Europe (Johansson ao, 1990a).
BENELUX
Observed in Belgium (De Prins ao).
distribution within Europe
From Sweden tot the Pyrenees, Alps, and Serbia, and from Ireland to Romania (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
larva
Body pale yellowish, head very pale light brown (Gustafsson & van Nieukerken, 199a), Sich (1909a).
synonyms
Artaversala, Nepticula, Stigmella, acetosae; Nepticula arifoliella Klimesch, 1940.
references
Beiger (1955a), Bengtsson (2008a), Diškus & Stonis (2012a), Gustafsson (1985a), Gustafsson & van Nieukerken (1990a), Hering (1921b, 1957a), Johansson ao (1990a), Klimesch (1940b), Laštuvka & Laštuvka (1997), Maček (1999a), Michalska (1976a), van Nieukerken (1986a,b), van Nieukerken, A & Z Laštuvka (2006a), Nowakowski (1954a), Parenti & Varalda (2000a), Robbins (1991a), Schütze (1931a), Sich (1908a, 1909a), Skala (1939a, 1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Sønderup (1949a), Šulcs (1996a), Szőcs (1977a), Zoerner (1969a).