Species Details

ABH: 4.082

BF: 25

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Ectoedemia intimella

Authority: (Zeller, 1848)

Vernacular: White-spot Sallow Dot

Account: Local in damp woodland and marshes throughout England, less commonly in the north Easily separated from most Ectoedemia species by presence of a medial dorsal spot only on forewing. Distinguished from E. heringella by more uniformly dark forewings, hair-pencil in male, and the flagellum being the same colour as the scape: it is the only Ectoedemia with this character. Other species of Nepticulidae with dorsal spot only have it in postmedial position (MBGBI Vol 1). Larva mines leaves of Sallow, 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: male 5.3 — 6.3 mm; female 5.6 — 6.8 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 4 Jun (2011) — 26 Jun (2010)

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

Foodplant: Salix fragilis, Salix sp. (a sallow).

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-intimella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 21

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2020

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