Succisa pratensis, Belgium, prov. Brabant Wallon, Rixensart, le Carpu: upperside of the leaf, with oviposition droplet © Jean-Yves Baugnée

Succisa pratensis, Belgium, prov. Namur, Agimont © Jean-Yves Baugnée

Succisa pratensis, Belgium, prov. Namur, Dourbes © Stéphane Claerebout

mine

Full depth, transparant blotch. Oviposition site, at the leaf upper surface, covered by a brownish black drop of hardened secretion. Frass in granules or thread fragments. Pupa in the mine, not in a cocoon.

host plants

Caprifoliaceae, oligophagous

Cephalaria; Knautia arvensis, dipsacifolia; Scabiosa canescens, columbaria; Succisa pratensis.

Succisa seems the normal host plant.

phenology

Larvae in June-July (Hering, 1957a).

BENELUX

BE observed (Bilý, 2002a; Fauna Europaea, 2007).

NE observed (Vorst, 2009a).

LUX observed (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

distribution within Europe

Almost all of Europe, Ireland excluded (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

larva

references

Allen (1969a), Bilý (1982a, 1993a), Brechtel & Kostenbader (2002a), Buhr (1933a, 1964a), Gottwald & Hornburg (2004a), Hering (1925b, 1930a, 1957a), Niehuis (2004a), Robbins (1991a), Schaefer (1949a), Sønderup (1949a), Théry (1942a), Verdugo Páez (2002a), Volkovitsh (2004a), Vorst (2009a).