UK Status
Resident. Widespread in England and Wales, also found in Glasgow and Wigtownshire in Scotland, can be common.
Montgomeryshire Status
Recorded once from a single site in the west of the county at Commins Coch in 2006.
Wingspan
:
M & F, 12-15mm.
Confusion species
None.
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Flight
time & Voltinity
(Univoltine)
Habitat
Mainly urban areas.
Foodplant
Mosses.
Lifestage data
Spinning. Eggs, oviposition site undescribed. Larva lives in a silken
gallery where it feeds, in later instars it feeds outside gallery.
Pupates in open network cocoon in larval feeding place. |

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