Lifestyle: Unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Pupaprium: Details unknown.

Comments: Hennig (1966-73) records Botanophila striolata mining leaves of Ranunculus, but the record is doubtful (Mike Ackland, pers. comm.).

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Anglesey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Cumberland, Denbighshire, Durham, East Cornwall, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Ross, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Easterness, Elgin, Glamorgan, Huntingdonshire, Isle Of Wight, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, North Devon, North Ebudes, North Hampshire, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, North-west Yorkshire, Orkney, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, South Devon, South Wiltshire, Stafford, Surrey, West Cornwall, West Gloucestershire, West Kent, West Norfolk, West Ross, West Suffolk, West Sussex, Westmorland, Wigtownshire 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: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, ? Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Is., Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Central, ? Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden and Switzerland (Michelsen, in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.