Prunus cerasus, Belgium, prov. Liège, Huy © Jean-Yves Baugnée

mine, lighted from behind, with larva

mine

Upper-surface blotch. The inner wall is lined with much silk, giving the mine a white colour. The silk also causes the mine to contract, pulling the leaf margins upwards; the mine can be almost completely hidden from view in this way. All frass is ejected from the mine. Pupation within the mine.

host plants

Rosaceae, monophagous

Prunus cerasifera, cerasus, domestica & subsp. insititia, persica, spinosa.

phenology

Larvae in September, October (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (van Nieukerken, 2006a).

NE not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

distribution within Europe

From Sweden tot the Pyrenees, Corsica, Italy, and Greece, and from Britain to the Ukraine (Fauna Europaea, 2009); Iberia (Laštůvka & Laštůvka, 2015a).

larva

pupa

See Grandi (1929a, 1931a, 1933a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a).

synonyms

Emmetia, Tischeria gaunacella.

references

Bengtsson (2008a), Buhr (1936a), Buszko & Beshkov (2004a), Drăghia (1968a,b, 1970a, 1971a), Emmet (1983b), Grandi (1929a, 1931a, 1933a), Hering (1932g, 1957a), Huemer (1988a), Kasy (1983a, 1987a), Klimesch (1957a, 1958c), Klimesch & Skala (1936b), Laštůvka & Laštůvka (2015a), Lhomme (1934c), Maček (1999a), van Nieukeren (2006a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a), Popescu-Gorj & Drăghia (1968a), Sefrová (2005a), Skala (1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Steeman & Sierens (2020a), Stolnicu (2007a, 2008a), Szőcs (1977a, 1978a, 1981a), Toll (1959b), Wieser (2005a).