Species Details

ABH: 28.005

BF: 638a

Family: Oecophoridae

Subfamily: Oecophorinae

Taxon: Denisia albimaculea

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: Pied Concealer

Account: Rare (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) in woods, parkland and gardens throughout England, although true distribution poorly known due to confusion with the much rarer D. augustella. In Hampshire known only from a number of specimens taken between 1979 and 1993 at light in Southsea. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 9-12 mm; D. augustella has a purplish tinge to the ground colour; the forewing fasciae are broader and more yellow, the antemedian being hardly narrower at the costa than at the dorsum, and the median is always confluent with the tornal spot (MBGBI Vol 4 part 1). Larva feeds within bark of European Larch, Field Maple, Lime, Apple and Elm.

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: 9 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 8 Jun (2004) — 24 Jun (2010)

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

Foodplant:

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

Status: pRDB3

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/denisia-albimaculea/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2010

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