Species Details

ABH: 14.008

BF: 272

Family: Bucculatricidae

Taxon: Bucculatrix cidarella

Authority: (Zeller, 1839)

Vernacular: Alder Tuft

Account: Local throughout the British Isles on Alder, as far north as Inverness-shire, and on bog-myrtle on Anglesey and Borth Bog in north-west Wales, Co. Kerry in Ireland and Arne NNR in Dorset Larva mines leaves of Alder and Bog-myrtle, 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: 8 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 8 Jul (2007) — 8 Jul (2007)

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

Foodplant: Alnus glutinosa (Alder), Myrica gale (Bog-myrtle).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/bucculatrix-cidarella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 33

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2005

Latest Year: 2013

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