Species Details

ABH: 4.014

BF: 98

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella catharticella

Authority: (Stainton, 1853)

Vernacular: Buckthorn Dot

Account: Local on chalk downland throughout England, more numerous in the south The combination of ferruginous-orange head, white collar and eyecaps, and white tornal spot, is distinctive, but the species is much more frequently recorded in the larval stage, although tenanted mines are difficult to find. Larva mines leaves of Buckthorn, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 4.6 — 5.5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Rhamnus sp.

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 76

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2020

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