Species Details

ABH: 15.041

BF: 321a

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter platani

Authority: (Staudinger, 1870)

Vernacular: Plane Leaf-miner

Account: Local in parks and urban areas, discovered new to Britain in London in 1990, since when it has spread through the southern counties of the UK and has reached the West Country and Midlands. Found in Hampshire for the first time in 1998 in Southampton and on the Isle of Wight in 2004, becoming more frequent and widespread. Wingspan 9-10.5 mm. Imago seldom encountered at light, and more likely to be recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of London Plane in late autumn and are large and obvious, one leaf often hosting several, 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: 9 — 10.5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 15 May (2020) — 4 Sep (2005)

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

Foodplant: Platanus hispanica.

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/phyllonorycter-platani/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 53

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2025

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