Food Plant: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup), Clematis and C. vitalba (Traveller's Joy)

Mine: June-September

Notes: The larva forms a long narrow upper surface mine. Most mines start close to the leaf tip. The larva exits through a slit. Pupation is external and the puparium pale brown - having posterior spiracles each with an ellipse of 10 bulbs. This mine is on Clematis macropetala - an adult was reared from this plant, emreging on 24t.v.2011, and is the first record on this host in the UK.

Data: 06.v.2011, Gresford, Denbighshire, VC 50

Image:© Bryan Formstone