Status: pRDB3
Notes: A miner of Sweet Chestnut and less often on Oak. First county record in Wickham in 1986, originally thought to be S.atricapitella until bred through; turned up in vc10 in 1997 and discovered in Yateley vc12 in 2000. Mines on Oak are difficult to separate from those of S.atricapitella without breeding through.
Link to leafmines.co.uk
UK distribution: First recorded in Wales in 1975. Stronghold in Hampshire with records from south-east England and East Anglia and only scattered occurrences in the midlands.

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