Local and rarely observed in Belgium.

The young larva makes a gallery in the epidermis of a leaf of Betula. This gallery leads to a blotch between veins, contorting the leaf. Later, the larva roles a leaf transversally from the tip. Pupation under a shining, greenish white membrane on the underside of a leaf.

The adults fly in two generations a year: in June and from September till April of the next year.