Argyresthia spinosella
Blackthorn Argent
Wingspan 9-11 mm. One of several similar species.
Associated with Blackthorn.
The adults fly during June and July and are attracted to light.
The larvae feed internally in the flowering shoots of Blackthorn.
It is distributed widely throughout much of the British Isles except for the north of Scotland. In the Butterfly Conservation’s Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland but possibly under recorded due to difficulties of identification. L&R Moth Group status = D (rare or rarely recorded)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
10 June 2014
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
02 June 2011
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
14 June 2008
Graham Calow
Sapcote
10 June 2014
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Species profile
- Common names
- Blackthorn Argent
- Species group:
- Moths
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Argyresthiidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 28
- First record:
- 13/06/2003 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 15/06/2023 (Gaten, Ted)
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