Species Details

ABH: 15.015

BF: 294

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Gracillariinae

Taxon: Aspilapteryx tringipennella

Authority: (Zeller, 1839)

Vernacular: Ribwort Stilt

Account: Common on downland, rough grassland, waste ground and roadside verges throughout the British Isles, as far north as Shetland. The imago is active in afternoon and evening sunshine and occasionally comes to light, and more likely to be recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Ribwort Plantain, subsequently living within a leaf-roll.

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: 10 — 13 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 15 Mar (2022) — 23 Aug (2017)

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

Foodplant: Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain).

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 1 — Relatively easily identified 👌

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/aspilapteryx-tringipennella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 70

Individuals: 14

Earliest Year: 2003

Latest Year: 2025

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