Species Details

ABH: 15.005

BF: 283

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Gracillariinae

Taxon: Caloptilia betulicola

Authority: (Hering, 1928)

Vernacular: Birch Stilt

Account: Common wherever the foodplant occurs, throughout much of the British Isles. Separated with certainty from C. elongella only by dissection of the genitalia; similar to C. rufipennella and C. hemidactylella. Larva mines leaves of Birch, subsequently living within a leaf-cone.

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: 14 — 16 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 5 Feb (2010) — 5 Nov (2024)

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

Foodplant: Betula pendula (Silver Birch), Betula sp. (a birch).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 13

Individuals: 3

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2024

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