Leaf-miner:
Full depth or lower-surface blotch, usually near the attachement
of the petiole. Older larvae do not mine any longer but live in
a flat case, made out of leaf fragments, and cause window feeding
at the leaf underside (Bladmineerders van Europa).
It
mines the leaf for the first three days and then forms a flat case
from which the larva feeds (British
leafminers).
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).
Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples).
Adult:
The adult is illustrated in UKMoths (by Nigel Richards) and the Encyclopedia
of Life. The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk.
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts
elsewhere:
Time
of year - larvae:
August - June (British
leafminers); July-August (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Time
of year - adults: Currently unknown.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including the Channel
Is. (Fauna Europaea), Anglesey, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Bedfordshire, Breconshire,
Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire,
Cheshire, Cumberland, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Dumfriesshire,
Dunbartonshire, Durham, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Ross, East Suffolk, East Sussex, East Sutherland, Easterness, Edinburgh, Elgin, Fife, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Herefordshire,
Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kincardineshire, Kirkudbrightshire, Linlithgow, Main Argyll, Merionethshire, Mid Ebudes, Mid-west Yorkshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire,
Montgomeryshire, North Aberdeenshire, North Devon, North Ebudes, North Essex, North Hampshire, North Lincolnshire, North Northumberland, North Somerset, North Wiltshire, North-east Yorkshire, Northamptonshire,
Nottinghamshire, Outer Hebrides, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire, Selkirk, Shropshire, South Aberdeenshire, South Devon, South Hampshire, South Lancashire, South Lincolnshire,
South Somerset, South Northumberland, South-east Yorkshire, South-west Yorkshire, Stafford, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Cornwall, West Gloucestershire, West Lancashire, West Norfolk, West Perthshire, West Suffolk, West Sutherland, Westerness, Westmorland, Wigtownshire and Worcestershire (NBN
Atlas).
Also
recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Fauna Europaea and National Biodiversity Data Centre Map).
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Albania,
Austria, Balearic Is., Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland,
Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Norwegian mainland, Poland,
Romania, Russia - Central, East and South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia,
Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Currently unknown.
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