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Stigmella oxyacanthella
Fruit-tree Dot (Stainton, 1854)
Nepticulidae: Nepticulinae
100 / 4.026
Photo © Patrick Clement,  Ex mine on hawthorn, Halesowen.

Similar West Midlands Species
Scarce Hawthorn Dot
Stigmella paradoxa
Rowan Dot
Stigmella nylandriella
Wingspan: 5-6mm
Flight: June-August
Foodplant:   Hawthorn, Apple and Pear
Nat Status: Common
Verification Grade:  Adult: -  Mine: L

Common resident.

Most easily recorded from leaf mines on Crataegus, Malus and Pyrus with larva feeding in September - November. In a long gallery, initially following a vein with linear frass before transversing the leaf with the frass dispersed in arcs; larva green.

Mine: Either the leaf or a good photograph required

Recorded in 69 (49%) of 140 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1883.
Last Recorded in 2022.
(Data up to end 2022)

Latest 5 Records (Data up to end 2022)
Date#VC10k Area
24/10/2022137SO97 - Dodford/Lickey
16/10/2022+40SJ22 - Oswestry/Llanymynech
16/10/2022240SJ41 - Shrewsbury/Preston Montford
02/10/2022140SO59 - Wenlock Edge
30/10/2021440SJ51 - Shrewsbury/Haughmond Hill
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