Species Details

ABH: 4.010

BF: 111

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella microtheriella

Authority: (Stainton, 1854)

Vernacular: Nut-tree Dot

Account: Common throughout much of Britain and western Ireland The species appears to be partly or wholly parthenogenetic. 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 Hazel and Hornbeam, 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: 3.5 — 4.8 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Carpinus sp., Corylus sp.

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-microtheriella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 311

Individuals: 21

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2025

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