Tischeria decidua Wocke, 1876
Quercus robur, Wellerlooi
Quercus robur, Lage Mierde: to the right the cocoon, upside down
mine
Upper-surface blotch without any initial corridor; the colour is yellow-brown with concentric grey-green arcs. The larva soon starts making a discoidal cocoon in the centre of the mine. During feeding pauses it rests in the cocoon, curved in a horse-shoe position. The mine contains little or no frass. The full grown larva frees the cocoon from the mine by making a circulur cut in the upper epidermis of the leaf. It hibernates in the fallen cocoon.
hostplants
Fagaceae, oligophagous
Castanea sativa; Quercus acutissima, cerris, faginea, x hispanica, ithaburensis subsp, macrolepis, mongolica, petraea, pubescens, robur & subsp. pedunculiflora, rubra, serrata, variabilis.
In the Netherlands a mine has been found on Fagus sylvatica; the larva had developed so far as to cut out its cocoon (van Wielink & Ellis, 2011a).
phenology
Larva from August (Hering, 1957a).
BENELUX
BE recorded (Chris Steeman in litt, 2013).
NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2009).
LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
distribution within Europe
Europe, south of the line: Netherlands, Poland, Central Russia; not in the British Isles (Fauna Europaea, 2009).
larva
pupa
Described by Patočka & Turčáni (2005a).
references
Barton (2018b), Beiger (1980a), Buhr (1964a), Corley, Marabuto & Pires (2007a), Csóka (2003a), Drăghia (1972a), Hartig (1939a), Hering (1931-32f, 1934a, 1957a), Huemer (1986b, 2012a), Huemer & Erlebach (2003a), Kasy (1983a, 1987a), Kollár & Hrubík (2009a), Klimesch (1950c, 1957a), Kollár (2007a), Kuchlein & Alders (2006a), Kuchlein & Kuchlein-Nijsten (2002b), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Maček (1999a), Matošević, Pernek, Dubravac & Barić (2009a), Patočka & Turčáni (2005a), Plóciennik, Pawlikiewicz & Jaworski (2011a), Sato (1993a), Schütze (1931a), Sefrová (2005a), Skala (1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Stammer (2016a), Stolnicu (2007a, 2008a), Szőcs (1977a), Toll (1959b), Tomov & Dimitrov (2007a), Ureche (2010a), van Wielink & Ellis (2011a), Zimmermann & Skala (1946a), Zoerner (1969a).