Leaf-mine: The mine is upper side, over veins. Silvery, with brown speckling, later contracting to cause leaf to fold upwards (British leafminers).

Upper-surface tentiform mine. The early mine is roundish, silvery, flat, and lies centered over a side vein. The older mine strongly contracts and sometimes almost doubles the leaf (Bladmineerders van Europa).

The leaf-mine is also illustrated in UKMoths, as Phyllonorycter quinnata.

Larva: The posterior abdomen is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.

Pupa: See Gregor and Patočka (2001a) and Patočka and Turčáni (2005a) for a description of the pupa. The cocoon and pupa are illustrated in British leafminers. The cremaster is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.

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

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

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

Time of year - adults: The adults emerge, like many other Phyllonorycter species, in May and again in August as a second brood (UKMoths, as Phyllonorycter quinnata (Stainton, 1851)).

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: A local species, mainly found in the south and south-east of England northwards to the midlands and South York, the most northerly record to date (UKMoths, as Phyllonorycter quinnata) including, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, North Essex, North Hampshire, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, South Lancaster, South Wiltshire, Stafford, Surrey, West Gloucestershire, West Kent, West Norfolk, West Suffolk and Worcestershire (NBN Gateway, as Phyllonorycter quinnata (Geoffroy, 1785), 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).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

Also recorded in Near East (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: