Species Details

ABH: 4.055

BF: 81

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella hemargyrella

Authority: (Kollar, 1832)

Vernacular: Beech Dot

Account: Common throughout much of the British Isles Imago seldom encountered at light, and more likely to be recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Beech, 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: 5.2 — 6.5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 18 Apr (2018) — 18 Apr (2018)

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

Foodplant: Fagus sp., Fagus sylvatica (Beech).

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-hemargyrella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 161

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2025

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