Leaf-mine: The larva makes a small full depth blotch, usually in the leaf tip. Frass concentrated in the centre of the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: The legless larva, when full grown, makes a globular cocoon in that same centre and pupates there (Bladmineerders van Europa).

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 Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Denbighshire, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Glamorgan, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, South Hampshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Kent, West Norfolk and West Suffolk (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).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Alonso-Zarazaga in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, Bulgaria, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia - East, Sicily, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Also recorded in the Oriental region (Alonso-Zarazaga in Fauna Europaea).

NBN interactive distribution map(s) of known host species in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere:

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

Biodiversity Heritage Library
Bladmineerders van Europa
British leafminers
Encyclopedia of Life, as Salius pratensis
Fauna Europaea
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