Leaf-mine: Flat, whitish. Pupation outside the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Yellow-grey, head light brown (Bland, 1996a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Pupa: Described by Bland (1996a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Adult: The adult is illustrated in UKMoths. The male genitalia, but not the female genitalia (check for update), are illustrated by the Lepidoptera Dissection Group.

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: March - May, and July (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain and Northern Ireland (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea) including Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, East Cornwall, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Easterness, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kincardine, Merionethshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, North Aberdeen, North Devon, North Ebudes, North Hampshire, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, Pembrokeshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeen, South Hampshire, South Lancaster, South Somerset, South Wiltshire, South-west Yorkshire, Stafford, Surrey, West Cornwall, West Gloucestershire, 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 (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.