Leaf-miner: A contorted gallery with dispersed frass, leading to a blotch (British
leafminers).
Egg
at the underside of the leaf. The mine is a highly contorted gallery,
strongly widening towards the end. Frass in the second half of the
gallery dispersed. The larva mines venter upwards. Mostly several
mines in a leaf (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Larva: The larvae of moths have a head capsule and chewing mouthparts with opposable mandibles (see video of a gracillarid larva feeding), six thoracic legs and abdominal legs (see examples).
Larva greenish-white with green gut-line and brown head (British
leafminers). The larva is also illustrated in
Bladmineerders van Europa.
Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples).
Adult:
The adult is not illustrated in UKMoths (check for update). The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk.
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts
elsewhere:
Time
of year - larvae: October (British
leafminers).
Time
of year - adults: Currently unknown.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, East Suffolk, Huntingdonshire,
North Hampshire, North Somerset, West Gloucestershire, West Norfolk and West Suffolk (NBN
Atlas).
See also British
leafminers distribution map.
Also
recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Fauna Europaea).
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria,
Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish
mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian
mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, ? Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania,
Russia - Central, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands,
Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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