Species Details

ABH: 15.022

BF: 310

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Acrocercopinae

Taxon: Callisto denticulella

Authority: (Thunberg, 1794)

Vernacular: Apple Nymph

Account: Common in gardens, orchards, hedgerows and woodland in Britain, north to Perthshire, uncommon in Ireland. Imago fairly regular at light, but more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Apple, subsequently living within a leaf-fold, over-wintering as a pupa in a cocoon.

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 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 10 May (2009) — 7 Nov (2010)

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

Foodplant: Malus sp. (an apple).

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/callisto-denticulella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 103

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2000

Latest Year: 2020

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