This is a difficult species to identify, being simlar to a
worn/faded Blastobasis adustella, so specimens should really be
determined under a microscope for certainty. A native to Maderia, it
first turned up in the UK in West Sussex in 2008 and there have been
other records across the southern part of the UK since. Blastobasis
vittata has now been recorded from at least two locations in Nottinghamshire,
with the specimen below being very kindly provided by Graham Beeley, who
recorded this species on several occasions from his Mansfield garden,
during August 2024. |