Alabonia geoffrella
Common Tubic
Wingspan 17-21 mm. A spectacular day-flying species, with its combination of rufous, white and metallic blue markings and remarkably large labial palps.
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Inhabits woodland and marshy places.
Flies during May and June.
It occurs reasonably commonly in England and Wales. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Quite uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Tim Sexton
Rutland Water
17 May 2022
Ian Harding
Sheet Hedges Wood
26 May 2023
Peter Smith
Cropston garden
24 May 2024
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Tubic
- Species group:
- insect - moth
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Oecophoridae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 17/05/2022 (Sexton, Timothy)
- Last record:
- 24/05/2024 (Smith, Peter)
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Ian Harding
Sheet Hedges Wood
26 May 2023
Simon Bennett
Sheet Hedges Wood
25 May 2023
Mike Buckley
Piper Wood
02 June 2022
Ian Harding
Sheet Hedges Wood
26 May 2023
