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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 leaf-mine See here for explanation

Flight time: May-mid Jun.

Forewing:

Foodplant: Birch.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1859	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2013
Number of records	12	30	99	43	9
Number of individuals	14	20	400	7	0
Unique positions	12	30	76	43	9
Unique locations	10	29	75	40	9
Adult records	2	0	7	2	0
Immature records	9	28	78	40	7

For the county, we have a total of 193 records from 163 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf-mines.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widespread and usually common to abundant, recorded from all five vice-counties.

2013 (CHF):A very common and distinctive leaf mine which is not likely to be confused with any other species mining on birch. The mine is a roundish, often almost circular, primary, upper-surface blotch without a trace of an initial corridor. There are often several mines in leaf. The mine has a conspicuous dark centre, where the larva often retreats. Young mines consist of only the dark centre, without the light periphery.

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