Leaf-miner: Large, lower-surface tentiform mine with one sharp fold. Frass in the opposite corner of the mine (Bladmineerders van Europa). The mine is also illustrated in British
leafminers and Belgian Lepidoptera.
Larva: See Grandi (1931a, 1933a) for a well-ilustrated description of the larva (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Pupa: Pupa in a flimsy cocoon (Bladmineerders van Europa).
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 (Bladmineerders van Europa)
Time
of year - adults: The adult is illustrated in Belgian Lepidoptera.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: P. pastorella was discovered in London on Salix species and hybrids (pers. comm Rob Edmunds)
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria,
Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary,
Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Russia (Central, East, North, Northwest, and South), Slovakia,
Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine
and Yugoslavia. Also recorded in East Palaearctic and Near East (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
Populus alba, Populus nigra, Salix alba, Salix babylonica, Salix lanata, Salix pentandra, Salix purpurea, Salix triandra, Salix viminalis, Salix x fragilis, Salix x pendulina, Salix x sepulcralis |
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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