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Host-plants. Carpinus betulus L. and C. orientalis Mill. in the Crimea (as in other regions).
Type of distribution (chorological group). Euro-Submediterrnaean; the species occurs from Italy and Great Britain to Sweden, Greece and the western Caucasus (Georgia).
Material examined. CRIMEA: 1 ♂, Dobroje, Krasnolissya, at light, 20.vi. 1983, leg. Zagulaev; 1 ♀, 20 km SW Feodosiya, Karadag Reserve, mining larva on Carpinus orientalis Mill., fieldwork card no. 5027, 14.vii–01.viii. 2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km E Sudak, Sonyachna Dolyna, empty leafmines on Carpinus betulus L., fieldwork card no. 5027, 17.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; Yalta, Mountain Forest Reserve and Botanical Garden, empty leaf-mines on Carpinus betulus L., fieldwork card no. 5027, 19.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 23 km S Simferopol, near Angarskij Pereval, empty leaf-mines on Carpinus betulus L., fieldwork card no. 5027, 21.vii. 2011, leg. A. Diškus & A. Navickaitė; 12 km N Alushta, Lavanda, empty leaf-mines on Carpinus orientalis Mill., fieldwork card no. 5027, 09.viii. 2011, leg. J. R. Stonis, A. Navickaitė & G. Varačinskas.
Remarks. The species is not rare in the Crimea: widespread but not abundant.