The leaf and stem  mines of British flies and other insects by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds


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Eriocrania sparrmannella (Bosc, 1791)
[Lepidoptera: Eriocraniidae]


Tinea sparrmannella Bosc, 1791. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 1: 197, t. 17 fig. 6-7.
Eriocrania sparrmannella
(Bosc, 1791).


Leaf-mine: A linear track widens to blotch, frass in long threads (British leafminers).

Larva: Larva white, gut-line green (British leafminers). The larva is illustrated in Nederlandse bladmineerders.

Pupa: Details unknown.

Hosts in Britain:

Betulaceae      
Betula     British leafminers
Betula     Plant, in Pitkin & Plant, 2005
Betula     UKMoths

Hosts elsewhere:

Betulaceae      
Betula spp.   Nederlandse bladmineerders

Time of year - mines: June - August (British leafminers).

Time of year - adults: Flying from late April into May and can be netted during the day flying around the foodplant (UKMoths).

Distribution in Britain: Locally but well distributed throughout Britain (UKMoths) including East Perth, East Ross, Easterness, Elgin, Mid Perth, North Aberdeen, North Essex, Northampton, South Aberdeen, South Lancaster, South-west York, Stafford, Surrey, Warwick, Worcester (NBN Gateway distribution map - HBRG, NE, NESBRC, SNH and SHWRG) and Northern Ireland (Karsholt & van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea). See also British leafminers distribution map.

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

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

Parasitoids: Unknown.



External links: Search the internet:

Belgian Lepidoptera
British leafminers
NBN Gateway
Nederlandse bladmineerders
Fauna Europaea [285093]
UKMoths

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Last updated 28-Sep-2008  Brian Pitkin