Species Details

ABH: 21.004

BF: 254

Family: Lyonetiidae

Subfamily: Cemiostominae

Taxon: Leucoptera laburnella

=Leucoptera laburnella f. wailesella

Authority: (Stainton, 1851)

Vernacular: Laburnum Leaf-miner

Account: Common in gardens and urban areas throughout much of the British Isles, north to the Highlands of Scotland Imago similar to L. spartifoliella; easily overlooked and not particularly common at light; more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Laburnum, and also has been reported on Dyer's Greenweed; over-winters as a pupa.

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: 7 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 16 Jun (2009) — 28 Aug (2007)

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

Foodplant: Genista tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed), Laburnum sp.

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/leucoptera-laburnella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 17

Individuals: 2

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2025

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