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Leaf-miner: Small
(less than 1 cm), full depth blotch, transparent when fresh, starting
at the leaf margin, usually near the leaf tip; frass in scattered
grains. The larva makes an elliptic double sided excision to form
a case. Subsequently, it continues feeding within the case (Bladmineerders
van Europa).
Larva:
The larva is illustrated in Bladmineerders
van Europa.
Pupa:
Details unknown.
Adult:
The adult is illustrated in UKMoths.
The genitalia are not illustrated by the Lepidoptera Dissection
Group (check for update).
Hosts
in Britain:
Hosts
elsewhere:
Time
of year - larvae:
Mining larvae in June - August or even later (Bladmineerders
van Europa).
Time
of year - adults: The moths fly in sunshine, in May and June
(UKMoths).
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including
Derbyshire, Dorset, East Cornwall, East Kent, East Suffolk, Herefordshire,
Kincardine, North Aberdeen, North Devon, North Ebudes, North Essex,
North Hampshire, Shropshire, South Devon, South Wiltshire, Stafford,
West Gloucestershire, 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 Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Karsholt
and van Nieukerken in Fauna
Europaea).
NBN Grid map: Note that not all datasets on the NBN Gateway may be available on the map below. If you are an NBN Gateway registered user you can request access for missing datasets via the link 'Open interactive map in new window' below.
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Albania,
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland,
French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad
Region, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norwegian
mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central, East and North, Slovakia,
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.
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