Species Details

ABH: 11.001

BF: 180

Family: Psychidae

Subfamily: Naryciinae

Taxon: Diplodoma laichartingella

=Diplodoma herminata

Authority: (Goeze, 1783)

Vernacular: Yellow-headed Bagworm

Account: Local in woodland throughout much of the British Isles. The adult moths are seen occasionally, but most records are of larval cases. Larva feeds on various lichens and dead insects, living within a movable case, over-wintering once or twice.

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: 10 — 15 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 23 Jun (2010) — 29 Jun (2012)

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: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1m — Relatively easily identified (males only) 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/diplodoma-laichartingella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 5

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2007

Latest Year: 2012

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