Last modified: May 22, 2024, 12:04 p.m.
This species is probably extinct in Belgium.
Native
Wingspan 14–20 mm.
The forewings are very light ochreous colored. The veins have lighter lines with little blackish dots.
The antennae are indistinctly alternately light brown-white ringed.
This is a dark greyish brown, 8 mm long, trivalved tube with a mouth angle of 40°.
See also bladmineerders.be.
The caterpillar bores out of the flower or seed-capsule at the end of there life. From this case holes are bitten in the walls of new capsules.
The caterpillars are fully grow in May.
They are on the wing from the end of May till the middle of July.
This species lives monophagously on Silene spp.