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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very common and widespread resident.

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

Flight time:

Forewing: 3mm.

Foodplant: Bramble.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1859	1883	1987	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2015	2014	2013
Number of records	86	91	536	205	60
Number of individuals	183	73	244	50	7
Unique positions	56	83	292	191	57
Unique locations	49	78	336	174	47
Adult records	8	7	6	3	0
Immature records	76	82	508	191	54

For the county, we have a total of 978 records from 684 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf-mines.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widespread and usually common in all five vice-counties.

2013 (CHF): A common widespread species across the county where the mines on bramble are a familiar site. The main identification problem is to separate this species from the much rarer Stigmella spendidissimella. There is no single feature which is reliable to separate these two and for a positive identification the adult should be bred out. Records of mines are mapped here as aurella as this is by far the commoner species and the vast majority of these will be correct. A typical aurella mine has frass occupying more than half the width in the second half of the mine, does not cross its own track but often crosses the midrib. The larvae may remain active in the mine in winter so tenanted mines after October are always aurella as larvae of splendidissimella do not overwinter.

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