Species Details

ABH: 4.002

BF: 116

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella lapponica

Authority: (Wocke, 1862)

Vernacular: Grey Birch Dot

Account: Common throughout much of Britain and western Ireland Adults require dissection to distinguish from other Stigmella species, and more reliably recorded in the larval stage, which 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 — 7 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-lapponica/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 102

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2020

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