Species Details

ABH: 14.006

BF: 270

Family: Bucculatricidae

Taxon: Bucculatrix frangulella

=Bucculatrix frangutella

Authority: (Goeze, 1783)

Vernacular: Buckthorn Tuft

Account: Local in fens, open woodland and hedgerows throughout much of south-eastern England, and in Yorkshire, Cumbria and on the Burren Larva mines leaves of Buckthorn and Alder Buckthorn, 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 — 8 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Rhamnus sp.

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

Status: None

UK BAP:

WCA:

No distribution map – Sensitive species!

Click here to view the full geology map of Surrey.

Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/bucculatrix-frangulella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 0

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