Agrimonia eupatoria, Belgium, prov. Luxembourg, Belvaux: the two larvae far left and far down in the picture, with dark head (the larvae with ± yellow head are Stigmella aeneofasciella); from van Nieukerken (2006a)

mine

Oviposition at the leaf underside. There starts an initially strongly contorted narrow corridor with a linear interrupted frass line. This is continued in broad corridor or elongated blotch with dispsered frass. Often a number of mines in a leaf. Pupation inside the mine, in a a violet to blackish cocoon.

hostplants

Rosaceae, narrowly oligophagous

Agrimonia eupatoria; Aremonia agrimonioides.

Reported by Stolnicu (2007a) from Agrimonia procera.

phenology

Larvae from end of August till October (Johansson ao, 1990a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (van Nieukerken, 2006b).

NE not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

distribution within Europe

From Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy, and Greece, and from Britain to the Ukraine (Fauna Europaea, 2009).

larva

Greenish yellow, ganglia conspicuous, brown; head brown; ventral plates absent.

synonyms

Stigmella, Nepticula agrimoniae.

notes

Species of warm, dry, chalk slopes.

references

Ahr (1966a), Beiger (1958a, 1979a), Bengtsson (2008a), Buszko & Baraniak (1989a), Buszko & Beshkov (2004a), J Černý (2001a), Gustafsson (1985a), Gustafsson & van Nieukerken (1990a), Hering (1932g, 1957a), Huber (1969a), Johansson ao (1990a), Laštuvka & Laštuvka (1997a), Michalska (1970a, 1972a), Muus (2026a), van Nieukerken (1985a, 1986a, 2006a), van Nieukerken, A & Z Laštuvka (2006a, 2010a), Skala (1939a), Steuer (1995a), Stolnicu (2007a), Šulcs (1996a), Szőcs (1977a, 1978a, 1981a), Wieser & Huemer (1999a).