A rare species in five provinces in Belgium, not often recorded as an imago.

The larvae feed on Malus. When young, in a gallery at the upperside of a leaf, becoming a blotch and later in 2 or 3 successive cones, rolled down at the edge of a leaf. Pupation in a folded leaf-edge among leaf litter. 

The adults fly in one generation a year: onwards from end April till June. They come to light.