Species Details

ABH: 20.017

BF: 416

Family: Argyresthiidae

Taxon: Argyresthia glaucinella

Authority: Zeller, 1839

Vernacular: Oak Bark Moth

Account: Local in open woodland, especially of oak, throughout Britain and southern Ireland. Fairly widespread in southern Hampshire and perhaps under-recorded in northern Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 8-10 mm. The larval workings more easily found than the adult, which closely resembles A. spinosella, and which can often only be reliably separated by dissection of genitalia, although A. glaucinella is slightly smaller and has different habitat requirements. Larva mines bark of Oak.

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: 8 — 10 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 8 Jun (2004) — 20 Jul (2021)

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

Foodplant: Aesculus sp., Betula sp. (a birch), Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 7

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2021

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