Forewings are narrow, dark fuscous; a broad white dorsal streak, sprinkled with dark fuscous from base to tornus, with broad triangular indentation at 2/5, including a black scale-tuft; from apex of this streak a slender whitish fascia to costa before apex, emitting a branch posteriorly in middle and sometimes one anteriorly below it; a black scale-tuft in disc before this.

[5] The larvae mine inside young shoots of apples (Malus species) and can be found by looking for small heaps of frass.

Occasionally there may be a small swelling and the young shoot may die off.

It is an introduced species in North America, where it has been recorded from Massachusetts and Ontario.

This article on a moth of the family Elachistidae is a stub.