Species Details

ABH: 15.065

BF: 343

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter esperella

=Phyllonorycter carpinicolella

=Phyllonorycter quinnata

Authority: (Goeze, 1783)

Vernacular: Dark Hornbeam Leaf-miner

Account: Local in woodland in south-east England up to Northamptonshire, with isolated records elsewhere from the south-west and Welsh borders (MBGBI Vol 2). Imago not often seen at light, and more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present; in Hampshire and on the Island, almost all records are of the leaf mines, hence the sparseness of the flight-time graph. Larva mines leaves of Hornbeam, 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: 7.5 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 May (2006) — 21 May (2009)

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: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 4 — ️‼️Dissection required️‼️
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/phyllonorycter-esperella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 129

Individuals: 7

Earliest Year: 1998

Latest Year: 2025

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