Species Details

ABH: 35.038

BF: 789

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Anomologinae

Taxon: Bryotropha domestica

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: House Moss-moth

Account: Common near buildings and around dry-stone walls throughout England, Wales and southern Ireland. A light coloured species with slender forewing, contrasting markings and with the first discal above the second plical stigma, extremely pale forms of B. dryadella are distinguished from B. domestica by the much darker hindwing (MBGBI Vol 4 part 2). Larva feeds on various mosses, often on walls, living within a silken gallery.

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: 11 — 14 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 1 Jun (2025) — 14 Sep (2025)

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

Foodplant: Musci.

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

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/bryotropha-domestica/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 93

Individuals: 46

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2025

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