Species Details

ABH: 4.091

BF: 39

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Ectoedemia heringi

Authority: (Toll, 1934)

Vernacular: White-spot Dot

Account: Local in woodland, orchards, gardens and parks throughout south-eastern England, north to Lincolnshire, and in central Wales. More likely to be recorded in the larval stage; the imago closely resembles E. subbimaculella but has the crown of the head darker, the spot at the base of the forewing larger, all the spots and the cilia whiter and the hindwings paler, nevertheless it is difficult to differentiate the two species with certainty without examination of the genitalia (MBGBI Vol 1). Larva mines leaves of Oak, often in fallen leaves, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 4.2 — 5.3 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/ectoedemia-heringi/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 13

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2015

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