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4.020 Stigmella paradoxa (Frey, 1858)
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egg at lobe edge

 

Food Plant: Crataegus (Hawthorn)

Egg: Underside of leaf at the tip of a lobe

Mine: June - early August

Notes: A blotch mine is formed on the on leaf-lobe with central frass. Leafmine onCrataegus sp. with egg on underside near leaf edge.

Data: 23.vii.2023, Aston Rowant NNR, Oxfordshire, VC28

Image:© Will Langdon

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