Species Details

ABH: 15.034

BF: 315

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter harrisella

=Phyllonorycter cramerella

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1761)

Vernacular: White Oak Leaf-miner

Account: Common in oak woodland and areas with scattered oaks throughout Britain, widespread but apparently less frequent in Ireland Imago fairly regular at light, but more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of deciduous oaks Quercus, 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: 7 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 30 Mar (2014) — 14 Aug (2008)

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

Foodplant: Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

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

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 142

Individuals: 21

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2025

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