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Current Volume - (135) 2023:
135
(1):
SIXTH UPDATE
TO A CHECKLIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRITISH ISLES, 2013
ON ACCOUNT OF SUBSEQUENTLY PUBLISHED DATA
1 DAVID J. L. AGASSIZ, 2 S. D. BEAVAN & 1 R. J. HECKFORD
1Insects Division, Department of Science, Natural History Museum, Cromwell
Road,
London SW7 5BD
2The Hayes, Zeal Monachorum, Devon EX17 6DF
Abstract
This update incorporates information published before 1 January 2023
into A Checklist of the
Lepidoptera of the British Isles, 2013.
DIALECTICA
SCALARIELLA (ZELLER, 1850) (LEP.: GRACILLARIIDAE) AT DUNGENESS, KENT:
THE FIRST BRITISH BREEDING RECORD
WILLIAM B. V. LANGDON
Appletree House, Higher Vexford, Lydeard St Lawrence, Taunton, Somerset
TA4 3QF.
will.langdon12@gmail.com
Abstract
Dialectica scalariella (zeller, 1850) (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) is
reported breeding
at Dungeness, East kent, in September 2022. Mines were found on Viper’s
Bugloss
Echium vulgare L. in a small area near Dungeness Bird observatory and
adults reared.
This is the third British record and first evidence of breeding here.
This discovery is
discussed, along with a summary of the species’ biology, previous
British records and
recent range expansion in Europe.
FIRST RECORD
OF ZIMMERMANNIA AMANI SVENSSON (LEP.: NEPTICULIDAE) IN WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE
(VC34)
AND A REVIEW OF UK RECORDS
SEB BUCKTON
5a Kings Road, Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 3SE
Abstract
Individuals of Zimmermannia amani Svensson were found in Worcestershire
and
Buckinghamshire in 2021 and in Gloucestershire in 2022. Prior to these
records, the species
was last reported in Britain in Bedfordshire in 2010 (one site) and at
a well-known site in
Huntingdonshire in 2005. Uk records of are reviewed.
Keywords: Zimmermannia amani, England.
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