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Parna tenella (Klug,1814)
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the leaves curl over

 

Food Plant: Tilia cordata (Small-leaved lime)

Mine: Summer

Notes: A local and scarce miner found on the large sucker growth. It makes large blotch mines, which cause the leaves to curl over (as shown). Two mines are forming above.

Data: 12.vi.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12 ex mine 29.v.2006, Langenlois, Austria, Ewald Altenhofer

Image:© Rob Edmunds

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