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Stigmella mespilicola
Wild-service Dot (Frey, 1856)
Nepticulidae: Nepticulinae
99a / 4.031

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Similar Species: None
Wingspan: 4-5mm
Flight: Two generations, May and July / August
Foodplant:   Wild Service Tree, Whitebeam, Swedish Whitebeam
Nat Status: pRDB2
Verification Grade:  Adult: 4  Mine: R
Status
No Norfolk records.

Thought to be mainly confined in the UK as a very local resident to the West Midlands region with a few additional records including the Natural History Museum garden in South Kensington, London in 2016.

Leaf-mine: Leaf mines on Sorbus torminalis, S. aria and Scandosorbus intermedia with larva feeding in June / July and September / October.

Please note the common Lyonetia clerkella also mines Rosaceae sp.

Verification Grade Comment: Larval images / breeding required to ID

Determination by Genitalia Examination Required

Mine: Moth needs to be reared and, in some cases, possibly dissected.


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