Species Account

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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Local

Local Status: Rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3 See here for explanation

Flight time: Two generations, May-Jun, Jul-Aug.

Forewing: 3mm.

Foodplant: Oak, Sweet Chestnut.

Regional breakdown:

	VC62	VC63	VC64	VC65
Year first recorded	2009	1988	2005	2004
Year last recorded	2012	2014	2005	2013
Number of records	2	21	1	9
Number of individuals	2	76	1	10
Unique positions	2	12	1	2
Unique locations	2	13	1	2
Adult records	1	12	1	8
Immature records	1	8	0	1

For the county, we have a total of 33 records from 18 sites. First recorded in 1988.

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Species Account

Beaumont, 2002:
VC63. Rossington, 10.8.1996, seven 23.5-31.8.1999, three 16.6-13.9.1999 (RIH). NEW COUNTY RECORD.

Argus 50, 2005:
VC64. Ellington Banks MoD, 7.9.2005 det. HEB (CHF, JCW, SPW). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

VC65. Thorpe Perrow arboretum, mine on oak 21.10.2004, moth reared 17.3.2005; Hutton Conyers 17.8.2005 det. HEB (CHF). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

Argus 58, 2009:
VC62. Skelton, 22.6.2009 gen. det. HEB (DM). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

2013 (CHF): Since its discovery in the county in 1996, this species has proved to be one of the most commonly encountered species of oak-feeding Stigmella, both as adults to light and leaf mines. Along with most of the other oak-feeding Stigmella species it cannot be safely identified as a mine and the adult should be bred out. The egg is laid on the underside of the leaf, almost always close to a thick vein. The mine is a fairly long, rather slender corridor. The frass is in a broad, often interrupted central band and may be coiled. The mine is quite variable. This species also mines sweet chestnut and is (probably!) the only Stigmella to do so in Britain.

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