Species Details

ABH: 4.045

BF: 50

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella aurella

=Stigmella aurella f. gei

=Stigmella aurella f. nitens

=Stigmella fragariella

Authority: (Fabricius, 1775)

Vernacular: Golden Dot

Account: Common often abundant throughout the British Isles, less numerous in Scotland (records have been made from every recorded 10km square in the country). A widespread and abundant in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, found virtually wherever the foodplants are present: any patch of bramble, even isolated plants, may exhibit the distinctive trail of the vacated mine of this species. Larva mines leaves of Bramble, Agrimony, Tormentil, Water Avens, Wood Avens and Wild Strawberry (the species was formerly divided into several different species on the basis of the various larval food plants utilised.) The long, sinuous mines are described in the following link:
leafmines.co.uk
.

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:

Surrey Flight Period: 26 May (2010) — 26 Aug (2004)

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

Foodplant: Rubus sp.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

Click here to view the full geology map of Surrey.

Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/stigmella-aurella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 353

Individuals: 29

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2025

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