Species Details

ABH: 14.012

BF: 275

Family: Bucculatricidae

Taxon: Bucculatrix bechsteinella

=Bucculatrix crataegi

Authority: (Scharfenberg, 1805)

Vernacular: Hawthorn Tuft

Account: Local in scrub, hedgerows and woodland edges throughout much of England and southern Scotland. Flies in evening sunshine. One of the less distinctive Bucculatrix species, and probably under-recorded. Larva mines leaves of Hawthorn, Pear, Apple, Rowan and Wild Service-tree, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 7 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 5 May (2007) — 25 Jul (2011)

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

Foodplant: Crataegus sp., Malus sp. (an apple), Pyrus sp., Sorbus sp.

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/bucculatrix-bechsteinella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 69

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2020

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