Species Details

ABH: 15.073

BF: 351

Family: Gracillariidae

Subfamily: Lithocolletinae

Taxon: Phyllonorycter lautella

Authority: (Zeller, 1846)

Vernacular: Small Oak Leaf-miner

Account: Local in woodland and areas with scattered oaks throughout much of the British Isles Larva mines leaves of Oak, preferring the foliage of saplings and stooled oaks, 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: 6 — 7 mm

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

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

Foodplant: Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak), Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak), Quercus sp. (an oak).

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

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 2 — Care needed to identify 🤔
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/phyllonorycter-lautella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 48

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2004

Latest Year: 2019

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