Species Details

ABH: 15.058

BF: 337

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter hilarella

=Phyllonorycter spinolella

Authority: (Zetterstedt, 1839)

Vernacular: Large Willow Leaf-miner

Account: Common in woodland edges and woodland rides throughout the British Isles Imago can be separated from several very similar Phyllonorycter species only by dissection of the genitalia, and much more frequently recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present. Larva mines leaves of Goat Willow, 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 — 9 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Jun (2011) — 14 Jul (2011)

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

Foodplant: Salix sp. (a sallow).

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/phyllonorycter-hilarella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 9

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2011

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