Leaf-miner: The gallery is sinuous, widening later, with linear frass (British
leafminers).
Egg
at the underside of the leaf, near a vein. The mine is quite variable.
It is a rather strongly tortuous corriodor, sometime widening only
a little, sometimes strongly, at times ending in a secondary blotch.
Frass black or brown, in a narrow central line (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).
The
larva is yellow, head brown (British
leafminers; Briolini (1961a); Gustafsson and van Nieukerken
(1990a); Bladmineerders van Europa).
Pupa: The pupae of moths have visible head appendages, wings and legs which lie in sheaths (see examples).
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: June - July, September - October (British
leafminers).
Time
of year - adults: Currently unknown.
Distribution
in Great Britain and Ireland: Britain including Bedfordshire,
Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, East Kent, East Norfolk, East Suffolk,
Glamorgan, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Middlesex, North Essex,
North Hampshire, North Somerset, Shropshire, South Hampshire, South Wiltshire, Stafford, Warwickshire, West Norfolk, West Suffolk and
Worcestershire (NBN
Atlas).
See also British
leafminers distribution map.
Also
recorded in the Republic of Ireland (Fauna Europaea).
Distribution
elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Austria,
Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany,
Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Russia - Central and East,
Slovakia, Slovenia, ? Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, The
Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia (Fauna Europaea).
NBN Atlas links to known host species:
British and Irish Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere:
Chalcidoidea |
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Asecodes delucchii (Boucek, 1971) |
Eulophidae: Entedoninae |
Chrysocharis nephereus (Walker, 1839) |
Eulophidae: Entedoninae |
Chrysocharis
nitetis (Walker, 1939) |
Eulophidae: Entedoninae |
Chrysocharis prodice (Walker, 1839) |
Eulophidae: Entedoninae |
Chrysocharis
pubicornis (Zetterstedt, 1838) |
Eulophidae: Entedoninae |
Closterocerus lyonetiae (Ferrière, 1952) |
Eulophidae: Eulophinae |
Closterocerus
trifasciatus Westwood, 1833 |
Eulophidae: Entedoninae |
Cirrospilus
vittatus Walker, 1838 |
Eulophidae: Eulophinae |
Cirrospilus viticola (Rondani, 1877) |
Eulophidae: Eulophinae |
Sympiesis gordius (Walker, 1839) |
Eulophidae: Eulophinae |
Ichneumonoidea - Links to species no longer available |
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Gnamptodon pumilio (Nees, 1834) |
Braconidae: Gnamptodontinae |
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