Species Details

ABH: 4.003

BF: 117

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella confusella

Authority: (Wood, 1894)

Vernacular: Pale Birch Dot

Account: Common throughout much of the British Isles Adults difficult to distinguish from other Stigmella species, and more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Birch, over-wintering as a pupa. The 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: 5 — 6 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Betula pendula (Silver Birch), Betula sp. (a birch).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 51

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2020

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