(Figs 14, 65)
Host-plants. Tilia cordata Mill. in the Crimea; in other regions also other Tilia species.
Distribution. Euro-Submediterranean; the species occurs from Spain and Great Britain to Sweeden, northwestern Russia and the western Caucasus (Georgia: Abkhazia and Adzharia).
Material examined. CRIMEA: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve, mining larvae on Tilia cordata Mill., fieldwork card no. 5039, 19.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė, genitalia slide no. AN 493 ♂; mining larvae and empty leaf-mines on Tiliae cordara Mill., fieldwork card no. 5039, 21.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė.
Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea; despite the limited distribution (known from the Yalta Forest Reserve) it is rather very abundant.