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Bucculatrix ulmifoliae M. Hering 1931 [Lepidoptera: Bucculatricidae] Bucculatrix ulmifoliae M. Hering, 1931a. Z. wiss. InsektBiol. 21: PAGE

Leaf-mine: Starts as a contorted frass-filled gallery, between the midrib and vein. Later the gallery, with broken black frass, follows a vein before turning away. The final mine is 11-15mm long. (British leafminers). The mine is also illustrated in Nederlandse bladmineerders. Larva: Dull, transparant yellowish; older larvae live free at the leaf underside, eating out windows (Nederlandse bladmineerders). The larva is illustrated in British leafminers. Pupa: Dark blackish brown, in a grey-black, ribbed cocoon (Langmaid, Porter & Collins, 2007). Hosts in Britain: Ulmaceae       Ulmus pumila x japonica   British leafminers Hosts elsewhere: Ulmaceae       Ulmus     Nederlandse bladmineerders Ulmus minor Small Leaved Elm Nederlandse bladmineerders Time of year - mines: June, October (British leafminers). Time of year - adults: Unknown. Distribution in Britain: Discovered in 2006 in Surrey (Farnham) (British leafminers). Distribution elsewhere: The Netherlands, Germany (Nederlandse bladmineerders), Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italian mainland, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central and South, Sardinia, ? Sicily, Slovakia and Yugoslavia (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea). Parasitoids: Unknown.

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