Species Details

ABH: 19.008

BF: 392

Family: Glyphipterigidae

Subfamily: Glyphipteriginae

Taxon: Glyphipterix schoenicolella

Authority: Boyd, 1858

Vernacular: Bog-rush Moth

Account: Nationally scarce (Na) in fens, bogs and dune slacks from Dorset to Cornwall, in the fens of East Anglia, in the west and north of Scotland and in the west of Ireland The adult moth is very similar to Cocksfoot Moth G. simpliciella, but in G. schoenicolella the forewing is more evenly coloured, hardly tinged with copper in apical third; costal strigulae less evenly spaced, usually a larger gap between third and fourth from base: hindwing dorsal cilia whitish-tipped, becoming entirely white towards base (MBGBI Vol 2). Larva feeds within ears of Black Bog-rush Schoenus nigricans, over-wintering in a cocoon.

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: 6 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 7 Jul (2007) — 8 Sep (2007)

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

Foodplant: Schoenus nigricans (Black Bog-rush).

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

Status: Nationally Scarce A

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/glyphipterix-schoenicolella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 5

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2011

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