Species Details

ABH: 12.047

BF: 199

Family: Tineidae

Subfamily: Teichobiinae

Taxon: Psychoides verhuella

Authority: Bruand, 1854

Vernacular: Hart's-tongue Moth

Account: Local in damp, shady woodland throughout much of England and Wales, more numerous in the west. Widespread and sometimes locally common on the Isle of Wight, but rarely recorded on mainland Hampshire. Wingspan 9-12 mm. Day-flying. More frequently recorded in the larval stage, when the mines and cases are occasionally numerous; the imago resembles P. filicivora with violet tinge but lacks white tornal spot. Larva mines fronds of Hart's-tongue, subsequently living within a movable case.

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: 9 — 12 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 2 Jul (2010) — 2 Jul (2010)

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

Foodplant: Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart's-tongue), Filicopsida.

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/psychoides-verhuella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 3

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2005

Latest Year: 2010

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