Species Details

ABH: 5.001

BF: 119

Family: Opostegidae

Taxon: Opostega salaciella

Authority: (Treitschke, 1833)

Vernacular: Sorrel Cap

Account: Local on heathland, dry pastures and other open areas throughout much of the British Isles Imago is the whitest of the Opostegidae. Larva mines leaves of Sheep's Sorrel.

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: 9 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 25 May (2011) — 23 Jul (2008)

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

Foodplant: Rumex acetosella (Sheep's Sorrel), Rumex acetosella ?.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/opostega-salaciella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 19

Individuals: 3

Earliest Year: 2008

Latest Year: 2020

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