Leaf-mine: Green, later brownish corridor or more often an elongated whitish linear blotch overlying the midrib. The mine has short, irregular side branches. Frass in irrgular, dispsersed grains. Pupation outside the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa; Spencer, 1972: 53 (fig. 177); Spencer, 1976: 273 (fig. 493), 275).

Larva: The larva is described by de Meijere (1928). Posterior spiracles each with an ellipse of 7-10 bulbs (Spencer, 1972: 55).

Puparium: Orange; posterior spiracles each with an ellipse of 7-10 bulbs (Spencer, 1976: 275).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: July, October.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including London (Cripplegate); Middlesex (Scratch Wood); Essex (Stanford-Le-Hope), Norfolk (Norwich) (Spencer, 1972: 55, as L. tragopogonis), Warwickshire (Coventry, Holbrooks) (Robbins, 1991: 123); North Somerset and South-west Yorkshire (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 Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 267), Germany (Bladmineerders van Europa; Spencer, 1976: 562), Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania and Poland (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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