Species Account
Distribution
Summary Data
Season (Adult / Immature):
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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 | |
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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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