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 three locations in Nottinghamshire,
with the lower specimen below, being very kindly provided by Graham Beeley, who
recorded this species on several occasions from his Mansfield garden
during August 2024. |
