Petiole-borer: Feeds and pupates in the petiole (Spencer, 1990: 21).

Essentially a borer in the petiole, but now and then the larva may also make corridors in the leaf blade. Pupation in the petiole (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: The puparium is described by de Meijere (1943). Brownish-black; posterior spiracles greatly enlarged, on projections extending laterally, each with a double ellipse of numerous minute bulbs (Spencer, 1976: 499-500).

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Added to British checklist by Smith and Henshaw in Chandler, 1998. Recorded in East Ross (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 from Lough Ballynafid, Co. Westmeath, Ireland (Chandler and O'Connor).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Belgium (Scheirs, de Bruyn and von Tschirnhaus, 1999), Denmark, Germany (Spencer, 1976: 499) and Estonia (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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