leaf lower surface

mine

Upper-surface gallery, often following the leaf margin for some length, finally strongly widened. The real start of the mine, however, is a long narrow epidermal corridor in the lower surface of the leaf, made by the first instar larva (Allen, 1956a). Pupation outside the mine, exit slit generally in the lower epidermis.

hostplants

Apiaceae, oligophagous

Aegopodium podagraria; Angelica sylvestris

Only occasionally on Aegopodium.

phenology

Larvae in June and August (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus, 1991a).

NE recorded (Ellis, several localities).

LUX recorded (Ellis: Kautenbach, Hobscheid).

distribution within Europe

From Scandinavia and Finland to the Pyrenees, Alps and Slovakia, and from Ireland to Lithuania and Poland; also Bulgaria (Fauna Europaea, 2008).

larva

puparium

Black.

references

Ahr (1966a), Allen (1956a, 1957b), Beiger (1965a, 1970a, 1979a, 1980a), de Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1991a), Buhr (1941b), Černý (2001a, 2011a), Černý & Vála (1996a, 1999a), Dreger & Myssura (2005a), Griffiths (1962a, 1973c), Hering (1932h, 1955b, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Maček (1999a), Manning (1956a), de Meijere (1938a), Michalska (1970a, 1976a), Ostrauskas, Pakalniškis & Taluntytė (2003a), Robbins (1991a), Scheirs, De Bruyn & von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Skala (1951a), Skala & Zavřel (1945a), Spencer (1953a, 1972a, 1976a), Starke (1942a), Surányi (1942a), von Tschirnhaus (1999a), Zoerner (1969a).