Species Details

ABH: 4.084

BF: 24

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Ectoedemia turbidella

Authority: (Zeller, 1848)

Vernacular: Grey Poplar Dot

Account: Rare (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) but numerous where it occurs, in woodland, marshes, river-banks and freshwater margins in Middlesex, south Essex and Cambridgeshire, female 6.0-7.8 mm. Easy to confuse with E. hannoverella, but in female the blunt ovipositor of E. hannoverella separates it immediately from E. turbidella, which has a pointed ovipositor; males with light heads can only be separated by dissection of the genitalia. E. hannoverella and E. turbidella are separated from other Ectoedemia by the presence of a white discal spot in basal part of forewing and many scattered white scales (MBGBI Vol 1). Larva mines leaves of Grey Poplar, 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 6.2 — 8.4 mm; female 6 — 7.8 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Populus canescens.

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

Status: pRDB3

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2010

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