Leaf-mine: Narrow, whitish (in the end often reddish brown) gallery of several decimeters in length, descending from the leaf tip to within the sheath of the leaf. Frass dispersed. Pupation external (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: The larva is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.

Pupa: See Bland (1996a), Patocka (1999a), Patocka and Turcáni (2005a) (Bladmineerders van Europa). The pupa is illustrated in the Encyclopedia of Life.

Adult: Not illustrated in UKMoths (check for update). The adult is illustrated in the Encyclopedia of Life. The genitalia are not illustrated by the Lepidoptera Dissection Group (check for update).

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: April-May and July-August (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, East Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Merionethshire, Monmouthshire, North Essex, North Hampshire, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, Shropshire, South Somerset, South Wiltshire, Stafford, West Norfolk, 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).

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, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and The Netherlands (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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