Leaf-mine: A large mine, 15-20 mm long, more than six creases, in the lower epidermis (British leafminers).

Relatively large, lower-surface tentiform mine; epidermis rather strongly folded. Pupa in the mine, in a white cocoon (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Larvae with an orange-yellow spot dorsally on the sixth abdominal segment (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Pupa: Cremaster exceptionally long and (see from the side) flat (Gregor and Patocka, 2001a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).

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

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: September - October (British leafminers).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Caernarvonshire, Cheshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, East Suffolk, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Merionethshire, Monmouthshire, North Hampshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeen, South Lancaster, South Wiltshire, Stafford, Surrey, 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). See also British leafminers distribution map.

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia - Central, East, North, Northwesy, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Also recorded in East Palaearctic (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:

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