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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and thinly distributed or restricted resident.

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

Flight time:

Forewing: 2-3mm.

Foodplant: Elm spp.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2006	1883	1883	2001	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2014
Number of records	11	20	61	55	25
Number of individuals	18	2	74	15	0
Unique positions	9	20	57	51	25
Unique locations	9	20	52	48	22
Adult records	0	0	0	0	0
Immature records	11	19	60	54	24

For the county, we have a total of 172 records from 151 sites. First recorded in 1883.

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Species Account

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

2013 (CHF):This is the commonest of the three Elm-feeding Stigmella species and is widespread wherever elm grows in the county. The mine often follows the leaf margin (hence the old name of marginicolella. The first section of the mine is almost entirely filled with frass. Frass in the later mine is often coiled. The larva is yellow and the exit slit is always on the upper surface of the leaf. In Stigmella ulmivora the early gallery contains linear frass, the larva is green and the exit is on the underside. Mines at times can be reminiscent of Stigmella viscerella but in these cases the early mine forms a coil rather than the typical "intestine-like" loops of viscerella

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