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Pyroderces argyrogrammos

Checklist Number
34.011 [B&F: 0898a]

Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification

Classification

Family:Cosmopterigidae
Subfamily:Cosmopteriginae
Genus:Pyroderces
Species:argyrogrammos
Authority:(Zeller, 1847)

Very rare immigrant (less than 10 previous UK records) from mainland Europe. Recorded once in the British Isles, in a garden MV trap on 16 May 2002 at La Broderie, St Peters, Guernsey. Larva feeds within flowers of Thistle, both Carduus and Cirsium, and Knapweed.