Leaf-miner: The small larvae leaf-mining at first, and later living externaly
in a silken web (UKMoths).
Body dull yellowish, dorsal line yellowish green, a subdorsal line of dull red dots. Head pale yellowish (Agassiz, 1996a). (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).
Body dull yellowish, dorsal line yellowish green, a subdorsal
line of dull red dots. Head pale yellowish (Agassiz, 1996a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples).
See Patocka and Turcáni (2005a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Adult:
The adult is illustrated in UKMoths.
The species is included in mothdissection.co.uk.
Hosts in Great Britain and Ireland:
Hosts elsewhere:
Time
of year - larvae:
July - September (Agassiz, 1996a) (Bladmineerders van Europa).
Time
of year - adults: Flying in May and June, the adults are sometimes
attracted to light (UKMoths).
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Distributed throughout most
of Britain (UKMoths)
including Bedfordshire, Breconshire, Caernarvonshire, Cambridgeshire, Carmarthenshire, North Northumberland, Denbyshire, Dorset, Durham, East Cornwall, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk, Glamorgan, Haddington, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Kirkudbrightshire, Montgomeryshire,
North Essex, North Somerset, North-west Yorkshire, Pembrokeshire, Shropshire, South Aberdeenshire, South Devon, South Northumberland,
South Somerset, Stafford, West Cornwall, West Gloucestershire, West Kent, West Norfolk, West Perthshire, West Suffolk and Worcestershire (NBN
Atlas), the Channel Is. (Fauna Europaea).
Also
recorded in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Fauna Europaea and National Biodiversity Data Centre Map).
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, French mainland,
Germany, Hungary, Italian mainland, Macedonia, Norwegian mainland,
Poland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Spanish mainland, Sweden,
Switzerland, The Netherlands and Ukraine (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
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