Species Details

ABH: 15.066

BF: 344

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter strigulatella

Authority: (Zeller, 1846)

Vernacular: Grey Alder Leaf-miner

Account: Local in damp woodland and field edges, occurring in very local, isolated colonies in central southern England, the southern Welsh border counties and Derbyshire (MBGBI Vol 2) 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 is a monophagous miner of Grey Alder, a non-native tree, often used as a windbreak around fields, larval damage being evident where this plant occurs, 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: Alnus incana (Grey Alder).

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-strigulatella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 4

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2010

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