Species Details

ABH: 35.109

BF: 822

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Gelechiinae

Taxon: Scrobipalpa acuminatella

Authority: (Sircom, 1850)

Vernacular: Common Thistle Miner

Account: Common on rough meadows, parkland, field-edges and chalk downland throughout much of the British Isles Can be confused with S. pauperella but both are reliably distinguished by their genitalia. Larva mines leaves of Thistle, both Carduus and Cirsium, and Colt's-foot.

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: 10 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 24 Apr (2010) — 5 Sep (2009)

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

Foodplant: Carduus sp., Centaurea sp., Cirsium sp.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/scrobipalpa-acuminatella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 19

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2018

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