Species Details

ABH: 35.099

BF: 801a

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Gelechiinae

Taxon: Gelechia senticetella

Authority: (Staudinger, 1859)

Vernacular: Cypress Gelechia

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in parks and gardens in parts of south-eastern England. An adventive species, naturalised through accidental introduction on coniferous plants from southern Europe and now fully established Can be distinguished from other superficially similar brown gelechiids using external characteristics only with great care. Larva mines leaves of Juniper and Lawson's Cypress, subsequently living within a silken tube or tent.

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 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 Jun (2025) — 31 Aug (2024)

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

Foodplant: Juniperus sp.

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify, an image may be required 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/gelechia-senticetella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 85

Individuals: 29

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2025

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