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National Status: None

Local Status: Rare and local resident.

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

Flight time: May-Jun.

Forewing: 3mm.

Foodplant: St. John's-wort.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2006	1883	1883	2002	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2012	2010
Number of records	4	4	18	4	3
Number of individuals	3	0	7	0	0
Unique positions	4	4	15	4	3
Unique locations	4	4	17	4	3
Adult records	1	0	0	0	0
Immature records	3	3	17	4	2

For the county, we have a total of 33 records from 32 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf-mines.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Recorded from all five vice-counties. Locally common among St John's-wort.

2013 (CHF):Locally common is still a good description of this species which mines various species of Hypericum, both wild and garden varieties. It is unlikely to be mistaken for any other species. The mine starts as a long narrow gallery with linear frass, traversing the leaf several times before abruptly turning into a large irregular blotch with scattered frass which tends to be concentrated in the centre.

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