Species Details

ABH: 34.005

BF: 894

Family: Cosmopterigidae

Subfamily: Cosmopteriginae

Taxon: Cosmopterix zieglerella

=Cosmopterix eximia

Authority: (Hübner, [1810])

Vernacular: Hop Beauty

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in hedgerows in south-eastern England, from Kent northwards to Norfolk and westwards to Berkshire Very similar to C. schmidiella, which is now believed to be extinct in the British Isles, and C. orichalcea, which has a different arrangement of metallic markings in the basal area of the wing. Larva mines leaves of Hop, over-wintering in a cocoon.

Update: Status review, December 2019.

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: 8.5 — 10.5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 10 Jun (2007) — 21 Aug (2017)

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

Foodplant: Humulus sp.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/cosmopterix-zieglerella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 22

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2017

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