Species Details

ABH: 4.026

BF: 100

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella oxyacanthella

Authority: (Stainton, 1854)

Vernacular: Fruit-tree Dot

Account: Common throughout much of Britain, but not in northern Scotland 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, but much confused in the past with S. crataegella, which has a similar mine and larva. Larva mines leaves of Hawthorn, Apple and Pear, 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 — 5.2 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Cotoneaster frigidus (Tree Cotoneaster), Crataegus sp., Malus sp. (an apple), Pyrus sp., Sorbus aucuparia (Rowan).

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-oxyacanthella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 157

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2025

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