Leaf-mine: Long, full depth mine, starting at an oviposition scar, mostly in the distal part of the midrib; the scar may be swollen and gall-like. Frass line variable in width, sometimes quite broad. Usually the corridor loosely follows the leaf margin, and the part of the leaf that is cut off from the centre dies off. The larvae live in spring, when the leaf is unfolding; later in summer affected leaves are recognisable because the tip of the leaf and parts of the marginal teeth are missing, by remnants of the corridor and by a general disfiguring of the leaf. The larva leaves the mine before pupation (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Details unknown.

Pupa: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain & Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Brecon, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Denbighshire, Dorset, Dumfrieshire, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Ross, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Easterness, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, North Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Radnorshire, Shropshire, South Devon, South Essex, South Hampshire, South Lincolnshire, South Somerset, South Wiltshire, South-west Yorkshire, Stafford, Surrey, West Gloucestershire, West Kent, West Lancaster, West Norfolk, West Suffolk, Westmorland and Worcestershire (NBN Gateway - N.B. includes Watsonian Vice Counties having publicly available records that fall within or overlap the vice county border at 10km resolution or better i.e. a record for a vice county may relate to an adjacent vice county - for included datasets see NBN Grid map below).

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Distribution elsewhere: Europe including French mainland, Germany, Italian mainland, Poland, Russia - Central, East, Northwest and South and Slovakia (Alonso-Zarazaga in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

Biodiversity Heritage Library
Bladmineerders van Europa
British leafminers
Encyclopedia of Life, as Curculio plantaris
Fauna Europaea
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