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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and local resident.

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

Flight time:

Forewing: 2mm.

Foodplant: Hawthorn.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1859	1883	2000	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2013
Number of records	10	13	36	15	6
Number of individuals	11	0	29	1	0
Unique positions	10	13	35	15	6
Unique locations	9	12	35	15	6
Adult records	0	0	0	0	0
Immature records	9	11	34	15	4

For the county, we have a total of 80 records from 77 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf-mines.

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

2013 (CHF): Widespread across the county but rather local. Identifying Stigmella mines in hawthorn can be tricky at times and this species can be mistaken for several others. The egg is on the underside of the leaf or on the petiole. The early gallery follows the petiole or a vein and is filled with brownish frass. The second part often has a section of coiled frass. It then widens into a secondary blotch. The mine is constrained between two veins or, less frequently, a lateral vein and the leaf margin. In the pseudoblotch the frass is warm brown and coiled. The larva is yellow. The mine may be difficult to distinguish from Stigmella crataegella which has a green larva, a thinner initial gallery and more prominently coiled frass with more hairpin turns.

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