Species Details

ABH: 15.067

BF: 345

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter rajella

=Phyllonorycter alnifoliella

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vernacular: Common Alder Leaf-miner

Account: Common in damp woodland throughout much of the British Isles Imago does not readily come to light, and more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Alder and Italian Alder, 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: 6 May (2007) — 19 Sep (2011)

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

Foodplant: Alnus glutinosa (Alder), Alnus sp.

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-rajella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 80

Individuals: 3

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2025

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