The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.
Range & Status
Widely distributed but nowhere common.
Regional Distribution
Discovered on Pentargon Cliff, Boscastle in 1990.
Habitat & Ecology
A leaf-miner on a wide range of umbelliferous plants, but there is clearly more to its
ecology than that.
Threats
Difficult to assess without improved knowledge of its ecology.
Conservation
The known site is owned by The National Trust and lies within a SSSI.
I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.
The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.