Lepidoptera Outer Hebrides

Family: Gelechiidae   Checklist Number: 35.039

Bryotropha politella   Stainton, 1851

Polished Groundling

Recorded during June and July in North and South Uist, and Benbecula. A grassland species which like many micro-moths is probably under-recorded. Larvae believed to feed on grasses Poa species

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