Leaf-mine: A long gallery with dispersed frass (British leafminers).

Oviposition may be at either side of the leaf, not necessarily close to a vein. The mine is a not very tortuous corridor, not widened in the end. Frass in a broad central line. The mine strongly overlaps with the one of Stigmella splendidissimella (Bladmineerders van Europa).

The mine is also illustrated in UKMoths.

Larva: The larva is amber-yellow, head yellowish-brown (British leafminers). The larva is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.

Pupa: The cocoon is illustrated in British leafminers and UKMoths.

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

Hosts in Britain:

Hosts elsewhere:

Time of year - larvae: May-June, July-August, October-March (British leafminers).

Time of year - adults: May and later in the summer (UKMoths).

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: This species is probably the commonest and most widespread in the British Isles (UKMoths) including Anglesey, Ayrshire, Banff, Bedfordshire, Brecon, Buckinghamshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Cheshire, Cheviotland, Derbyshire, Dorset, East Cornwall, East Gloucestershire, East Norfolk, East Ross, East Suffolk, East Sussex, East Sutherland, Edinburgh, Elgin, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Haddington, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kincardine, Leicestershire, Merionethshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, North Essex, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, North-east Yorkshire, Northumberland South, Nottinghamshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeen, South Devon, South Essex, South Hampshire, South Lancaster, South Wiltshire and South-west Yorkshire (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), the Channel Is. and Northern Ireland (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea). See also British leafminers distribution map.

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, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dodecanese Is., French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Kaliningrad Region, Lithuania, Madeira, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. Also recorded in the East Palaearctic (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: