Species Details

ABH: 4.013

BF: 97

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella malella

Authority: (Stainton, 1854)

Vernacular: Apple Dot

Account: Local throughout much of England, rare elsewhere in Britain. 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 Apple, causing sufficient damage to be a serious pest in some areas, 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: 4.5 — 5.5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Malus sp. (an apple).

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-malella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 47

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 1999

Latest Year: 2020

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