Species Details

ABH: 35.035

BF: 746

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Apatetrinae

Taxon: Chrysoesthia drurella

=Chrysoesthia hermannella

Authority: (Fabricius, 1775)

Vernacular: Fiery Miner

Account: Local on waste ground, farmland and other open areas throughout much of England, north to Yorkshire, northern Wales, and central Scotland, where it is rare The orange and lead-grey imago is seldom encountered, and the species is more likely to be recorded in the larval stage, when larvae may be obtained by sweeping the foodplant. Larva mines leaves of Goosefoot and Orache, over-wintering in a cocoon.

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: 22 Apr (2011) — 6 Jun (2010)

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

Foodplant: Atriplex sp., Chenopodium 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/chrysoesthia-drurella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 5

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2015

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