A not so common species in Belgium. Populations have declined because of the Dutch elm disease.

The yellowish larva makes a leafmine on Ulmus. Egg is laid on either side a leaf. Pupation in a dark greenish grey cocoon among leaf litter.

The adults fly in two generations a year; in May and August. 

ID mine: starts as a narrow gallery with frass in a broad line, later it becomes more dispersed or in arches. The larval exit-hole is on the upperside of the leaf, a feature serving to distinguish vacated mines from the sometimes similar mines of Stigmella ulmivora.