Leaf-mine: Full depth or lower-surface blotch, usually near the attachement of the petiole. Older larvae do not mine any longer but live in a flat case, made out of leaf fragments, and cause window feeding at the leaf underside (Bladmineerders van Europa).

It mines the leaf for the first three days and then forms a flat case from which the larva feeds (British leafminers).

Larva: Details unknown.

Pupa: Details unknown.

Adult: The adult is illustrated in UKMoths (by Nigel Richards) and 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: August - June (British leafminers); July-August (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including the Channel Is. (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea), Anglesey, Ayrshire, Banff, Bedfordshire, Brecon, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Dumfrieshire, Dunbarton, Durham, East Cornwall, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, East Sussex, East Sutherland, Easterness, Elgin, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kincardine, Merionethshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, North Aberdeen, North Devon, North Ebudes, North Essex, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, North-west Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland South, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeen, South Devon, South Hampshire, South Lancaster, South Lincolnshire and South Wiltshire (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 Albania, Austria, Balearic Is., Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central, East and South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

NBN interactive distribution map(s) of known host species in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere:

Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

Belgian Lepidoptera
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Bladmineerders van Europa
British leafminers
Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea
NBN Gateway
UKMoths