Mines of Phyllonorycter staintoniella on Genista pilosa near Porthtowan, Cornwall Image:© Bob Heckford

Leaf-mine: Upper-surface tentiform mine (according to Hering, 1957a, mostly lower-surface in Laburnum). The mine is strongly contracted, almost folding the leaflet to a pod and concealing the mine. Pupa in the mine in a flimsy cocoon. Frass in a corner of the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Larva: Head pale brown, body deep yellow (Emmet et al., 1985) - a very unusual colour for a gracillariid larva (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Pupa: illustrated by Gregor and Patocka (2001a) and Patocka and Turcani (2005a) (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: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including West Cornwall (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).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Slovakia and Sweden (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

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