Species Account
Distribution
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National Status: Common Local Status: Scarce and local resident. Local Record: Grade 3 adult, 2 leaf-mine See here for explanation Flight time: Forewing: 3mm. Foodplant: Rowan. |
Regional breakdown:
| VC61 | VC62 | VC63 | VC64 | VC65 | |
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| Year first recorded | 2004 | 1860 | 1983 | 1984 | 1883 |
| Year last recorded | 2012 | 2014 | 2011 | 2013 | 2011 |
| Number of records | 3 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 4 |
| Number of individuals | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Unique positions | 3 | 6 | 23 | 13 | 4 |
| Unique locations | 2 | 6 | 24 | 14 | 4 |
| Adult records | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Immature records | 3 | 5 | 27 | 19 | 3 |
For the county, we have a total of 62 records from 50 sites. First recorded in 1860.
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Species Account
Most records are of leaf-mines.
Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Thinly but quite widely recorded in all vice-counties except VC61. This species was described from moths reared at Scarborough by T. Wilkinson in 1860 (Stainton, 1861).
Argus 66, 2012:
VC61. Skipwith Common, mines on rowan 13.9.2012 (CHF). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.
2013 (CHF):Most of our records are from upland areas where the larvae mine leaves of rowan. The mine is distinctive and begins as a very slender winding corridor of 15-20 mm, the second part of which is almost stuffed with frass. The corridor then abruptly widens into a blotch with dispersed frass; in large leaves this blotch is almost circular. The midrib is not usually crossed, but the mine can occupy the major part of a leaflet. There are often several mines in a leaf. Occasionally other species of Sorbus are used as a food plant.
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