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Phyllonorycter platani
Plane Leaf-miner (Staudinger, 1870)
Gracillariidae: Lithocolletinae
321a / 15.041
Photo © James Emerson,  18/01/18. Bred through from a leaf-mine collected from Norwich city centre.

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Wingspan: 8-10 mm.
Flight: April - May and Aug.
Foodplant:   London Plane
Nat Status: Local
Verification Grade:  Adult: 2  Mine: A
Status
Local.
Discovered in London in 1989.
The species has slowly spread through the Southern counties and into Norfolk in 2002.

Distinctive species with golden ochre ground colour and markings of silvery white edged with grey.

Leaf-mine: July - November.
Large mines, often several in one leaf.

Recorded in 41 (55%) of 74 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 2002.
Last Recorded in 2025.
Additional Stats

Latest 10 Records
Date#VC10kArea
29/04/2025328TF70Boughton
01/12/2024+28TF70Oxborough / Foulden Common
25/11/2024+28TF62Wolferton
05/11/2024+28TF62King's Lynn / Gaywood
05/11/20241027TM18Gissing
20/10/2024+28TL98West Harling
17/10/2024+28TF74Holme
21/09/2024127TG10Bowthorpe
15/09/2024+27TG31Great Plumstead
04/09/20245028TL98Bridgham
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