Etainia sericopeza

Wingspan 6 to 8 mm.  The adult moths, though tiny, are relatively strongly patterned for a Nepticulid.  The larva mines the seeds, or samara, of Norway Maple, forming a short gallery from the wing into the seed itself.

Adult Samara mine

Good quality photographs required please.  If recording the samara mine please state the host plant species.

Areas where Norway Maple is present.

Adults fly in May and August, in two generations.

The larva mines the seeds, or samara of Norway Maple.

A rather rare species, found mainly in parts of south-east England but with a few scattered records from further north. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as Nationally Scarce A.

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.

http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Lepidoptera/E.sericopeza.htm

https://bladmineerders.nl/parasites/animalia/arthropoda/insecta/lepidoptera/monotrysia/nepticuloidea/nepticulidae/etainia/etainia-sericopeza/