Species Details

ABH: 4.060

BF: 84

Family: Nepticulidae

Subfamily: Nepticulinae

Taxon: Stigmella ruficapitella

Authority: (Haworth, 1828)

Vernacular: Red-headed Dot

Account: Common throughout much of the British Isles. In Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight common and widespread, although some historic records may relate to S. svenssoni, which see. Best recorded in the larval stage, when mines are relatively easy to find where they are present in oak woodland.

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: 7 May (2004) — 29 Aug (2008)

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: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Verification Grade: 5 — Adults unidentifiable 😖 or pending grading 🧐
Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/stigmella-ruficapitella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 36

Individuals: 1

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2025

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