Leaf-miner: The mine is upper side, over veins. Silvery, with brown speckling,
later contracting to cause leaf to fold upwards (British
leafminers).
Upper-surface
tentiform mine. The early mine is roundish, silvery, flat, and lies
centered over a side vein. The older mine strongly contracts and
sometimes almost doubles the leaf (Bladmineerders van Europa).
The
leaf-mine is also illustrated in UKMoths,
as Phyllonorycter quinnata.
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).
The larva is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.
Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples).
See Gregor and Patočka (2001a) and Patočka and Turčáni (2005a) for a description of the pupa. The cocoon and pupa are illustrated in British
leafminers. The cremaster is illustrated in Bladmineerders van Europa.
Adult:
The adult is illustrated in UKMoths (as Phyllonorycter quinnata). The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk.
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts
elsewhere:
Time
of year - larvae: July, September - October (British
leafminers).
Time
of year - adults: The adults emerge, like many other Phyllonorycter
species, in May and again in August as a second brood (UKMoths,
as Phyllonorycter quinnata (Stainton, 1851)).
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: A local species, mainly found
in the south and south-east of England northwards to the midlands
and South York, the most northerly record to date (UKMoths,
as Phyllonorycter quinnata) including, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire,
Denbighshire, Dorset, East Cornwall, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Flintshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Middlesex, North Hampshire, North Somerset,
Shropshire, South Wiltshire, South-west Yorkashire, Stafford, Surrey,
West Gloucestershire, West Kent, West Norfolk and West Suffolk (NBN
Atlas). See also British
leafminers distribution map.
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Albania,
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland,
French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Fauna Europaea).
Also
recorded in Near East (Fauna Europaea). NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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