Comments:
Phyllonorycter viminiella (Sircom, 1848) is treated as a junior synonym of Phyllonorycter salictella (Zeller, 1846) in Belgian Lepidoptera, Bladmineerders van Europa and Fauna Europaea. If the two names are indeed synonymous then the earliest, and therefore senior name, is Phyllonorycter salictella (Zeller, 1846).
The NBN Atlas treats viminiella (Sircom, 1848) as a subsp. of Phyllonorycter salictella (Zeller, 1846), along with the nominate subsp. salictella (Zeller, 1846).
UKMoths and Agassiz, Beavan and Heckford, 2013 in the Checklist only include Phyllonorycter viminiella (Sircom, 1848); and Agassiz, Beavan and Heckford, 2013 in the Checklist includes Phyllonoryter salictella sensu auctt. (nec. Zeller) as a junior synonym Phyllonorycter viminiella (Sircom, 1848).
The Hymenopterists recognise two species each with a different suite of parasitoids.
According to Agassiz (pers. comm.) "The taxa [salictella and viminiella] look different" and "traditionally British specimens have been referred to viminiella".
Leaf-miner: The mine is underside, strongly creased and contracted causing
leaf-edge to fold down (British
leafminers).
The
mine is also illustrated in UKMoths.
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. The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk.
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts elsewhere (as a junior synonym of Phylonoryctor salictella):
Time
of year - larvae: Currently unknown.
Time
of year - adults: The adults fly in May and June and again in
August (UKMoths).
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: A species generally inhabiting
wetland habitats, the distribution of this moth extends throughout
England and Wales and into southern Scotland and there are scattered
records from Ireland and northern Scotland (UKMoths) including Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Breconshire, Caernarvonshire, Carmarthenshire,
Cambridgeshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Derbyshire, Dumfriesshire, East Kent, Flintshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Leicestershire, Merionethshire, North Devon, North Essex, North Hampshire, North Somerset, Nothumberland South, Pembrokeshire, South Hampshire, South Somerset, South-west Yorkshire,
Warwickshire, Westmorland and Worcester (NBN
Atlas).
See also British
leafminers distribution map.
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria,
Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia,
Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Moldova, Norwegian mainland,
Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia - Central, North and
Northwest, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The
Netherlands and Ukraine. Also recorded in East Palaearctic (Fauna Europaea, as salictella).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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