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| Nepticulidae | ||
| 1 | Mine gallery with dispersed frass leading to blotch [8-4] | Ectoedemia atricollis 29 |
| Mine formed otherwise | 2 | |
| 2 | Mine irregular usually with linear frass, though some slight coiling may be present, broader in second half, larva green [6-7+8-9] | Stigmella minusculella 91 |
| Mine with dispersed or coiled frass in second half | 3 | |
| 3 | Mine relatively straight, extending across the leaf; larvae green with yellowish gut [9-10] | Stigmella oxyacanthella 100 |
| Mine
strongly contorted and confined to a small area; larvae green
with reddish gut [7+9] |
Stigmella pyri 101 | |
| Lyonetiidae | ||
| Mine a brown circular blotch with the frass forming darker spiral markings in the centre. Egg laid well away from margin [8-9] | Leucoptera malifoliella 260 | |
| Bucculatricidae | ||
| Mine short contorted, linear black, close to a major vein. Later the larva eats out windows from upperside [7-8] | Bucculatrix bechsteinella 275 | |
| Gracillariidae | ||
| Blotch over midrib, silvery-white [7+10-4] | Phyllonorycter leucographella 332a | |
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