Species Details

ABH: 35.019

BF: 857

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Anacampsinae

Taxon: Anarsia lineatella

Authority: Zeller, 1839

Vernacular: Peach Twig Borer

Account: An adventive species on various Prunus fruits, and a commercial pest in Europe. Added to the British list in 1957 when reared from an imported apricot. Between 1971 and 1999 there were eight further records of moths being reared from, or larvae found in imported plums, peaches and nectarines. Subsequently, it appears to have established itself in the wild around Arundel, Sussex, where frequent at light through the 1990s and subsequently very locally elsewhere in southern and south-east England Larva feeds within fruit of Peach and Plum, causing sufficient damage to be a serious pest in some areas.

Updated: July 2019 (taxonomic status)

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 11 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 Jun (2011) — 15 Jul (2006)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Prunus armeniaca, Prunus persica (Peach).

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Adventive

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/anarsia-lineatella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2006

Latest Year: 2016

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