Species Details

ABH: 15.087

BF: 365

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter comparella

Authority: (Duponchel, [1843])

Vernacular: Poplar Leaf-miner

Account: Scarce in damp woodland throughout England. Wingspan 8 mm. Larva mines leaves of White Poplar and Grey Poplar, often favouring isolated, young saplings. In Hampshire first identified as a mine on poplar leaves at Butterwood near Hook, VC12 in 2007 (also reported from the Hants/Surrey border in 2021); subsequently found to be locally common in the Portsmouth area with records from 2019 to date. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date.

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: 8 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Populus alba (White Poplar), Populus canescens., Populus nigra., Populus sp. (a poplar).

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/phyllonorycter-comparella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 38

Individuals: 23

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2025

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