Species Details

ABH: 4.073

BF: 33

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Bohemannia auriciliella

=Bohemannia bradfordi

Authority: (Joannis, 1908)

Vernacular: Gold-fringed Dot

Account: Endangered (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) and recorded from woodland in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire. First discovered in Britain as a single male taken at Childs Forstal Wood near Blean, Kent in 1973 (initially described as Ectoedemia bradfordi, it was found to be the same species as the, at the time, only specimen of auriciliella taken in France in 1908); subsequently a female and the second British specimen, taken by W.Fassnidge, turned up in a collection in Copenhagen, labelled Southampton 1937. In recent years, two further individuals have been trapped in the Wickham area, and it is therefore evidently still present at very low density.

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:

Surrey Flight Period: 27 Jun (2010) — 27 Jun (2010)

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

Foodplant: Betula sp. (a birch).

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

Status: pRDB1

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/bohemannia-auriciliella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2010

Latest Year: 2010

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