Last modified: March 3, 2024, 10:53 a.m.
First Belgian record in 2020, probably overlooked in earlier years.
Native
Wingspan 15–20 mm. Obvious are the long, narrow, black forewing with black dots and with raised dark scales. Hindwings grey.
The larva can best be searched in June–early July.
The larva mines at first in mainly Erica sp. Later it lives in a silken gallery amongst the leaves of Erica or Calluna vulgaris, close to the ground, and mainly feeds in mosses of the genus Cladonia
One generation a year in April–May.
Lichens of the genus Cladonia, and the lower leaves of Erica sp. and Calluna vulgaris.
Moors and heathland. It has a preference for heathland that has been burnt one or two years earlier.