12.048 BF200 – Tineidae – Tineinae – Psychoides filicivora

Tineidae – Tineinae – Psychoides filicivora – Fern Smut

STATUS – A notable species (Nb) – Uncertain and possibly spreading in the county, with only seven available records, with four of them from one site in Buxton.

ID POINTERS –  A yellow head, with a dark purplish-brown forewing with a pale whitish or yellowish triangular shaped spot at the tornus, and whitish legs

FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing in April- October 

IMAGES – Buxton, Derbyshire – Steve Orridge©

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