Luquetia lobella
Sloe Flat-body
Wingspan 19 mm.
This species occupies a range of woodland and scrubland habitats.
The nocturnal adults are on the wing during June.
The larvae feed on Blackthorn during autumn and pupate in a silken cocoon amongst leaf-litter. The winter is spent as a pupa.
Distributed in the southern part of England. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as local.
It appears to be uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland; we believe the Harby specimen of 2th June 2015 was only the third record of this species in VC55. L&R Moth Group status = D (rare or rarely recorded).
Graham Calow
Stockhill Farm, near Broughton Astley
28 June 2019
Mark Skevington
Whetstone Garden
14 June 2017
Pete Leonard
Harby, Watson's Lane
09 June 2020
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Harecroft Crescent
02 June 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Sloe Flat-body
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Depressariidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 17
- First record:
- 24/06/2015 (Leonard, Pete)
- Last record:
- 17/06/2023 (Poole, Adam)
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Pete Leonard
Harby
24 June 2015
andrew johnson
dadlington garden
17 July 2017
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Harecroft Crescent
28 May 2020
Graham Calow
Stockhill Farm, near Broughton Astley
28 June 2019
