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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and local resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: late Mar-early May.

Forewing: 5-8mm.

Foodplant: Birch.

Regional breakdown:

	VC61	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	1904	1859	1883	1883	1883
Year last recorded	2014	2010	2014	2011	2015
Number of records	9	7	11	15	5
Number of individuals	14	83	70	32	5
Unique positions	8	7	10	12	4
Unique locations	6	7	10	12	4
Adult records	4	5	2	5	1
Immature records	4	0	5	9	3

For the county, we have a total of 47 records from 39 sites. First recorded in 1859.

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Species Account

Similar species: 0012 Eriocrania sangii.

For further information refer UK Moths.
Most records are of leafmines. Refer leafmines.co.uk
For information on genitalia determination refer to Lepidoptera Dissection Group 2013 website for male and female.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely recorded, although there is no record from VC61. All Yorkshire records are regarded as unconfirmed on map 13 in MBGBI 1, however there are a number of confirmed records from the south of VC63.

2012 (CHF): Adults are virtually impossible to tell from E. sangii however the larvae are distinctive. The head is entirely ochreous brown or black. The first thoracic segment has one large dark spot.

See background to species accounts. Index of Vernacular names - Search - Random Species

Yorkshire Moths
A guide to the moths of VC61-65