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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very common and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 adult, 1 leaf-mine See here for explanation

Flight time: Two generations, Apr-May, Jul-Aug.

Forewing: 2-3mm.

Foodplant: Beech.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2009	1859	1883	2000	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2014	2014	2014	2013
Number of records	34	65	100	111	37
Number of individuals	115	96	491	22	0
Unique positions	28	61	88	108	35
Unique locations	26	60	83	99	31
Adult records	1	0	1	0	1
Immature records	33	63	98	110	35

For the county, we have a total of 347 records from 299 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Most records are of leaf-mines.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed and common in all five vice-counties.

2013 (CHF): Widespread and common across the county where the larva mine beech leaves. This is the commoner of the two beech-feeding Stigmella species. The mine is usually very distinctive. The egg is laid under the leaf in the axil of a vein. The corridor then zigzags outwards between two lateral veins in the direction of the leaf margin. The frass is never coiled. It must be distinguished from Stigmella hemargyrella where the egg is laid away from the midrib, there is a section of coiled frass, and the mine is much more untidy.

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