Leaf-mine: Details unknown (British leafminers; Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: The larva is described in Bladmineerders van Europa.

Pupa: Details unknown.

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

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: April to August British leafminers.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Occurs scattered throughout the UK, except N.Scotland and Ireland (British leafminers), including Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, North Wiltshire, South Devon, South Wiltshire and West Cornwall (NBN Gateway, as Cosmiotes consortella - 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).

Found in well drained grassland British leafminers.

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, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, French mainland, Germany, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Ukraine (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.