Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella (Honeysuckle Leaf-miner) - iMoths


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Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella
Honeysuckle Leaf-miner Bouché, 1834
Gracillariidae : Lithocolletinae

354 / 15.076

Photo © Patrick Clement, Female, ex mine on Leycesteria formosa. Halesowen, VC37, 2017.

Similar West Midlands Species
Elm Leaf-miner Phyllonorycter tristrigella

Shining Elm Leaf-miner
Phyllonorycter schreberella

Wingspan:	9-10mm
Flight:	Two generations, May and August
Foodplant:	Honeysuckle, Himalayan Honeysuckle, Snowberry.
Nat Status:	Local
Verification Grade: Adult: 2 Mine: L

Fairly common resident.

Lonicera spp., Symphoricarpos rivularis, Leycesteria formosa, with larva feeding in July and September/October in a large inflated mine on the underside of a leaf.

Verification Grade Comment: Photo/leaf or examine puparium cremasters

Mine: Either the leaf or a good photograph required

Recorded in 55 (39%) of 140 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1887.
Last Recorded in 2022.
(Data up to end 2022)

Latest 5 Records (Data up to end 2022)
Date	#	VC	10k Area
08/12/2022	1	40	SJ41 - Shrewsbury/Preston Montford
14/11/2021	1	40	SJ32 - Ruyton-XI-Towns/Queens Head
10/11/2019	1	40	SJ70 - Telford/Shifnal
30/05/2019	1	40	SO49 - Church Stretton
06/12/2018	1	40	SO49 - Church Stretton

Further info: Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella

	UK Moths		Mothdissection UK
	Lepiforum.de		West Midlands Moths (Full)

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