Ancylosis oblitella

Ancylosis oblitella (Zeller, 1848)
Status .....A former scarce migrant moth to the UK, colonising south-eastern counties back in the 1950's. Ancylosis oblitella is a very rare moth in Nottinghamshire with just two records. One was recorded at MV light from the Red Hill area, north of Eakring on August 8th 2004 (Pendleton, T.A. and P[endleton, D.T.), which remained the county's only record until another was recorded from Langford Lowfields on August 11th 2025 (Morton, D. and Ashley, A.), then a third to MV light at Broadholme on August 24th 2025 (Gray, M.). And there's been recent records from Besthorpe NR on September 13th 2026 and Misson Carr on September 22nd 2026 (both Pendleton, T.A.) and presumably others since.
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Photographed at Misson Carr, September 2026

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Photographed at Besthorpe NR, September 2026

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Photographed at Langford Lowfields, August 2025. Specimen kindly provided by Dave Morton and Andy Ashley.

									Photographed at Red Hill, Eakring on August 8th 2004



									The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Trevor and Dilys Pendleton. Dave Budworth (Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Entomological Society 2019 Journal Number 169 Micro-Moth Report 1998-2019 – new species). Dave Morton and Andy Ashley. Martin Gray. You can contribute your own records to help us gain an accurate status of this species in Nottinghamshire. Send an Excel spreadsheet of your records via the 'contact us' link at the top of the homepage. Updated September 2026


Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Ancylosis oblitella