Species Details

ABH: 35.080

BF: 732

Family: Gelechiidae

Subfamily: Anomologinae

Taxon: Oxypteryx unicolorella

    =Eulamprotes unicolorella

Authority: (Duponchel, [1843])

Vernacular: Bronze Neb

Account:

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:

Surrey Flight Period: 5 May (2007) — 29 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: Nationally Scarce B

UK BAP:

WCA:

Moths

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Moths

Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐

Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/oxypteryx-unicolorella/

Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 15

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2001

Latest Year: 2018