Stigmella aurella

Wingspan 6-7 mm. This is one of a group of very similar looking Stigmella moths and identifying individual species presents huge problems. For this reason we can only accept records for this species if the record relates to the leafmines that occurs on Bramble or to an adult that has been reared from the leafmine. 

Other Stigmella species.

Adult Leafmine

Leafmine occurs on Bramble. http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Lepidoptera/S.aurella.htm

This is one of a group of very similar looking Stigmella moths and identifying individual species presents huge problems. For this reason we can only accept records for this species if the record relates to the leafmines that occurs on Bramble or to an adult that has been reared from the leafmine. 

Anywhere that Bramble is found.

The adults fly in May and later in the Summer.

The foodplant is Bramble and its whitish mines, often tinged purple, are a familiar sight on Bramble leaves everywhere.

This species is probably the commonest and most widespread in the British Isles.

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland, but recorded mainly from leafmines.  The adult can only be safely recorded if reared from a mine.