Leaf-mine: Gallery-like full depth mine, mainly in the base of the leaf, with irregularly scalloped sides. Frass in the oldest part of the mine in thick black grains; further on the mine does not contain frass at all. In the transition between the two parts there is a hole in the epidermis from which frass is ejected. Older larvae live free, between spun terminal shoots (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Young, mining larvae green (Hering, 1957a). Older larvae dull whitish green with five dull pink length lines. Head and prothoracic plate black; pinacula small, black (Bland et al., 2002a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Pupa: See Patocka and Turcáni (2005a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Adult: The adult is illustrated in UKMoths by John Murray. The genitalia are not illustrated by the Lepidoptera Dissection Group (check for update).

Comments: Stellaria uliginosa is treated as Stellaria alsine (Bog Stitchwort) by Stace (2010).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: December - April (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Merionethshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, South Hampshire, South Wiltshire, Stafford, Surrey, West Suffolk 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) and Northern Ireland (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central, Slovakia, Slovenia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Ukraine (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.