Mine of Stigmella zelleriella on Salix repens Image: Willem Ellis (Bladmineerders van Europa)

Leaf-mine: Egg invariably at the leaf underside. From there runs a short gallery, often partly following the leaf margin, almost stuffed with frass. The corridor widens into a blotch that may occupy half a leaf; the frass here is dispersed. Pupation extrernal. Vacated mines turn black (Bladmineerders van Europa).

A short gallery, almost filled with frass, which usually follows the leaf edge then becomes a blotch, with dispersed frass, and occupying half the leaf. The vacated mines appear black (British leafminers).

Larva: Yellow (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Pupa: Details unknown.

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: About the first half of July and the first half of October (Bladmineerders van Europa).

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including East Kent (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 Belgium, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Russia - Central, North and Northwest, Sweden and The Netherlands (Karsholt and van Nieukerken in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.