Lifestyle: Unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Recorded as a miner in the petioles of Urtica sp. by Ferrar (1987), Beiger (1968) and White (1988), although there are unconfirmed records on Caprifoliaceae and Asteraceae.

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - mines: ? July.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: England, as far north as Yorkshire (White, 1988: 38), including the Channel Is. (Merz and Korneyev, in Fauna Europaea); Anglesey, Berkshire, Brecon, Buckinghamshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Mid-west Yorkshire, Monmouthshire, North Lincolnshire, North Somerset, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Renfrewshire, Shropshire, South Hampshire, South Lancaster, South Wiltshire, South-east Yorkshire, Stafford, Surrey, 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).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Merz and Korneyev, in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Throughout Europe, except the north (White, 1988: 38) including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finald, French mainland, Germany, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Central and East, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Spanish mainland, Sweden Switzerland, The Netherlands and Ukraine (Merz and Korneyev, in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in the Near East (Merz and Korneyev, 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.