Species Details

ABH: 4.039

BF: 73

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella trimaculella

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: Three-spot Dot

Account: Common throughout much of England, less so in the west, and distinctly rare in Wales and 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. Larva mines leaves of Black Poplar and Grey Poplar, over-wintering as a pupa.

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: 5.4 — 6 mm

Surrey Flight Period: —

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

Foodplant: Populus italica, Populus nigra., Populus x canadensis (Hybrid Black-poplar).

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-trimaculella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 55

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2020

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