Species Details

ABH: 15.052

BF: 332

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter corylifoliella

=Phyllonorycter corylifoliella f. betulae

Authority: (Hübner, 1796)

Vernacular: Hawthorn Leaf-miner

Account: Common in scrubland, hedgerows and open woodland throughout much of the British Isles. Not often recorded at light, and more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Hawthorn, Apple, Rowan, Cotoneaster and Birch, over-wintering as a pupa 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: 8 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 3 Aug (2010) — 15 Aug (2010)

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

Foodplant: Betula pendula (Silver Birch), Betula sp. (a birch), Crataegus sp., Malus sp. (an apple), Rosaceae.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/phyllonorycter-corylifoliella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 320

Individuals: 3

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2025

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