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Distribution

 
 

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Very rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 4   See here for explanation

Flight time:

Forewing: 3mm.

Foodplant: Oak.

Regional breakdown:

 VC61VC63
Year first recorded19942001
Year last recorded20132012
Number of records22
Number of individuals21
Unique positions22
Unique locations22
Adult records10
Immature records12

For the county, we have a total of 4 records from 4 sites. First recorded in 1994.
 

Photos

04.063 Stigmella roborella 02 mine on pedunculate oak
© Andy Nunn
04.063 Stigmella roborella 01
© Andy Nunn, gen. det. Charlie Fletcher

Species Account

Beaumont, 2002:
VC61. South Cave, 7.7.1994, gen. det. HEB (DBC). NEW COUNTY RECORD.

2013 (CHF): Identifying the oak-feeding Stigmella species (with the exception of basiguttella is fraught with danger and records are not acceptable without breeding out the adult moth. This is a rare species in the county with few records though it might be commoner than the dots on the map suggests. The egg can be laid on either side of the leaf. The mine is a long, slender, not very contorted corridor. In the first part the frass lies in a very narrow line; later the frass may in rare cases lie more widely scattered, but nowhere does it take more than 1/3 of the width of the gallery.
 

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