Species Details

ABH: 4.051

BF: 59

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella poterii

=Stigmella poterii f. serella

=Stigmella poterii f. tengstroemi

=Stigmella tormentillella

Authority: (Stainton, 1857)

Vernacular: Burnet Dot

Account: Nationally scarce (Nb) on chalk and limestone districts throughout much of south-eastern England, and in Cumbria and Lancashire 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 Salad Burnet, over-wintering as a pupa. In Scotland, f. tengstroemi occurs on damp moorland, where the larva mines Cloudberry and Stone Bramble. Throughout the species' range, f. serella, the larva of which mines Tormentil and which was previously afforded specific status, occurs.

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 — 5 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Potentilla erecta (Tormentil), Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry), Sanguisorba minor.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/stigmella-poterii/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 1

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2008

Latest Year: 2008

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