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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Common and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: Jun.

Forewing: 3mm.

Foodplant: Rosaceous trees, esp. hawthorn, apple.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2008	1883	1883	2001	2002
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2012
Number of records	13	28	84	37	17
Number of individuals	3	0	201	2	0
Unique positions	13	28	75	37	17
Unique locations	11	26	69	35	17
Adult records	0	0	0	0	0
Immature records	13	27	83	34	17

For the county, we have a total of 179 records from 158 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Recorded sparsely from all five vice-counties.

2013 (CHF):Virtually all of our records are from leaf mines on hawthorn. If the mine starts away from the leaf edge, it begins as an erratic gallery zigzagging to and fro in a small area near the egg before moving to the edge of the leaf. If (as is more common) it starts at the leaf edge, this stage is missed. The mine follows the leaf margin for a long distance and then leads to a blotch with scattered frass. Along with all hawthorn mines, care should be taken in identifying this species as not all mines are typical.

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