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318 Phyllonorycter tenerella (Joannis, 1915)
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Food Plant: Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam)

Mine: June - July, September - October

Notes: A mine between veins from midrib to leaf-edge, narrow, tubular, with one crease in lower epidermis. The pupal cremaster has the outer spines thicker and curved (as shown)

Data: 17.x.2004, Fleet, Hants, VC12

Images:© top: Willem Ellis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; bottom: Rob Edmunds

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