Species Details

ABH: 35.141

BF: 765

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Gelechiinae

Taxon: Teleiodes vulgella

Authority: ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

Vernacular: Black-spotted Grey

Account: Common in gardens, scrub, open woodland and hedgerows throughout England and Wales, but rare in Ireland. Larva feeds on Hawthorn and Blackthorn, living between leaves spun together with silk.

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: 11 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 27 May (2018) — 6 Aug (2013)

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

Foodplant: Cotoneaster horizontalis (Wall Cotoneaster), Crataegus sp., Juniperus sp., Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/teleiodes-vulgella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 86

Individuals: 21

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2025

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