Species Details

ABH: 15.035

BF: 316

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter roboris

Authority: (Zeller, 1839)

Vernacular: Beautiful Oak Leaf-miner

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) in mature oak woodland in parts of England and eastern Wales. 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 Oak, 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: —

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

Foodplant: Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak), Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak), Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

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

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2003

Latest Year: 2008

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