Status
.....First recorded in Nottinghamshire at Nottingham
University Park in 2017 (Clough, J.), previous to several
leaf mines on Holm Oak at Colwick Country Park in June 2020 and at
Nottingham University's Jubilee Campus in July 2020. It is a moth
which is currently extending its range, after being recorded for the
first time in the UK at London in 1996, but remained unidentified until 2002.
Trees soon become heavily
infested with leaf mines, but currently, only those trees in the
Nottingham University area are infested to this degree.
By 2021, it had reached as far north in the county as Retford (where it
was recorded from Retford Cemetery) and in 2022, new sites were recorded
from a single roadside Holme Oak at Sutton-on-Trent and from Calverton. |
