A rather uncommon species in Belgium.

The larva makes a leafmine usually on Rubus but also on Agrimonia, Fragaria and Geum. Usually a long sinuous gallery with frass at first broken linear, then dispersed about two third of mine width. Brown cocoon.

The adults fly in two generations a year: late April-May and July-August. 

ID mine: there is a great overlap with mines between this species and Stigmella splendidissimella, especially on Rubus and it's not easy to separate them. However there is a diagnose to give maximum chance for correct determination. In step-down order for S. aurella; frass in second part of gallery minimal half of width, frass in first cm of gallery minimal half of width, mine is straight in first cm, mine crosses rarely itself and mine cross regularly the midrib.