Food Plant: Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken) and less commonly on Polypodium vulgare (Polypody).
Mine: Univoltine: summer
Pupa: Outside the mine.
Notes: A small marginal upper surface gallery in a single section of frond (as shown). Widespread in South. Ireland: Co. Clare. Scotland: Dunbartonshire
Agromyzidae Recording Scheme Grade: 5
Data: 23.viii.2006, Fleet, Hants, VC12
Image:© Rob Edmunds
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