Species Details

ABH: 35.076

BF: 741

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Anomologinae

Taxon: Monochroa suffusella

Authority: (Douglas, 1850)

Vernacular: Cottongrass Borer

Account: Rare (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) in bogs, fens, marshes, river-banks, damp areas and saltmarshes in parts of northern Wales and southern England, with records north to Yorkshire One of several similar, rather nondescript gelechiids, which can only be reliably identified by dissection of the genitalia. Larva mines leaves of Common Cotton-sedge.

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: 7 Jun (2010) — 23 Jun (2008)

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

Foodplant:

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

Status: pRDB3

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 3 — Difficult to identify 🤔🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/monochroa-suffusella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 2

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2008

Latest Year: 2010

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