Leaf-mine: The larvae mine the stems of various coarse grasses (UKMoths; Plant in Pitkin and Plant, 2005).

Larva: Details unknown.

Pupa: Details unknown.

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

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: The adults appear between July and September, and fly in the early afternoon sunshine (UKMoths).

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Well-distributed throughout England and Wales, but rather unobtrusive and probably overlooked (UKMoths) including Bedfordshire, Brecon, Caernarvonshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Glamorgan, Leicestershire, Merionethshire, Monmouthshire, North Somerset, Shropshire, South-east Yorkshire, Stafford, Warwickshire, West Gloucestershire, 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 Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Crete, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central, East, North, Northwest and South, 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.