Species Details

ABH: 14.002

BF: 266

Family: Bucculatricidae

Taxon: Bucculatrix nigricomella

Authority: (Zeller, 1839)

Vernacular: Daisy Tuft

Account: Local on embankments, waste ground and rough grassland throughout the British Isles Flies in the late afternoon and early morning. Distinguished from other Bucculatrix by dark metallic bronze ground colour, with diffused whitish spots on dorsum at one-half and three-quarters and two similar spots on costa slightly beyond, and white eye-caps (MBGBI Vol 2). Larva mines leaves of Ox-eye Daisy.

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: 24 Apr (2014) — 2 Sep (2007)

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

Foodplant: Leucanthemum vulgare (Oxeye Daisy).

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-nigricomella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 21

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2025

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