Norfolk status
Widespread and increasingly recorded in Norfolk in recent years.

Nationally Scarce, one of several confusingly similar gelechiids.

Dissection recommended if a moth is too worn to enable any/all of the critical features to be seen.

First modern day record of a single specimen recorded at Dersingham Bog in July 2011, followed by another specimen taken at Salhouse Broad in August that year.
Several confirmed specimens taken in recent years.

Considered a declining species throughout the UK.

[MBGBI vol 4(2) p233]

Recorded in 35 (47%) of 74 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1874. Last Recorded in 2024. Additional Stats

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