Species Details

ABH: 21.005

BF: 256

Family: Lyonetiidae

Subfamily: Cemiostominae

Taxon: Leucoptera spartifoliella

Authority: (Hübner, [1813])

Vernacular: Broom Stem-miner

Account: Local wherever the foodplant occurs, throughout much of Britain, but local in Ireland Imago similar to Laburnum Leaf Miner L. laburnella; easily overlooked and not particularly common at light; more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines under bark of Broom and Dyer's Greenweed.

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: 7 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 15 May (2002) — 15 May (2002)

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

Foodplant: Cytisus sp.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/leucoptera-spartifoliella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2002

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