Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 adult, 2 leaf-mine See here for explanation

Flight time:

Forewing: 2-3mm.

Foodplant: Sallows.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1960	1859	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2013
Number of records	19	35	98	53	25
Number of individuals	23	4	220	13	2
Unique positions	13	34	84	52	23
Unique locations	10	32	84	49	23
Adult records	3	0	2	0	2
Immature records	16	33	95	49	21

For the county, we have a total of 230 records from 198 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf-mines.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widespread and common. Recorded from all five vice-counties.

2013 (CHF): Mines are common throughout the county on Sallows (ie Salix caprea and cinerea). The egg is laid on the underside of the leaf. A contorted gallery then leads to a blotch which is small in relation to the side of the leaf. The situation however might not be quite a simple as this as other species of Salix may be mined and some mines have an upperside egg - this may yet prove to be a separate species.

See background to species accounts. Index of Vernacular names - Search - Random Species

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