Species Details

ABH: 20.023

BF: 422

Family: Argyresthiidae

Taxon: Argyresthia albistria

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: Dark Blackthorn Tip Moth

Account: Common in hedgerows and scrub throughout the British Isles. Occurs in two forms, a unicolorous form, which is similar to the unicolorous form of Apple Fruit Moth A. conjugella, but with head white in A. albistria, and the nominate form, which is similar to A. semifusca, but smaller and brighter. Larva mines flowering shoots of Blackthorn, over-wintering as a small larva.

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: 9 — 11 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 Jun (2020) — 3 Sep (2014)

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

Foodplant: Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/argyresthia-albistria/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 41

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2024

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