Species Details

ABH: 15.083

BF: 361

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter trifasciella

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: Banded Honeysuckle Leaf-miner

Account: Common in woodland and hedgerows throughout England and Wales, more local in Scotland and apparently only coastal in Ireland (MBGBI Vol 2) Imago fairly regular at light, but just as likely to be recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum, but also Leycesteria formosa and Symphoricarpos.

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 — 8 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 22 Apr (2007) — 6 Dec (2007)

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

Foodplant: Leycesteria sp., Lonicera periclymenum (Honeysuckle), Symphoricarpos albus (Snowberry).

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-trifasciella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 116

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2020

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