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Ectoedemia angulifasciella
Bent-barred Pigmy
Wingspan 5 to 6 mm.
Leafmine occurs on Rose (and sometimes on Salad Burnet. http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Lepidoptera/E.angulifasciella.htm
Gardens, parks and other areas where the larval foodplants occur.
The adults fly during July and the mines can be found from September to November.
The larva creates a mine in a Rose (Rosa) leaf, beginning as a contorted gallery filled with brownish frass and then widening into a blotch with central or dispersed blackish frass. The young larva itself has a chain of dark spots on the abdomen. In later instars, these spots become smaller and less noticeable, and the green gut can be seen.
A locally common species occurring in England, Wales and southern Scotland. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = C (very scarce resident or rare migrant).
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bent-barred Pigmy
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Nepticulidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 17
- First record:
- 30/10/2015 (Russell, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 01/09/2023 (Graves, Hazel)
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