Photo © Mike Wall

Salebriopsis albicilla

Checklist Number
62.008 [B&F: 1446]

Verification
Record will normally be accepted but photo evidence may be required - check with CMR if not sure of identity

Classification

Family:Pyralidae
Subfamily:Phycitinae
Genus:Salebriopsis
Species:albicilla
Authority:(Herrich-Schäffer, 1849)

Vulnerable (proposed as a future Red Data Book species) and restricted in Britain to woodland in the Wye Valley, where only discovered in 1964, and to a few woods in Somerset and Warwickshire. Not recorded in Hampshire or on the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 18-22 mm. Similar to Pyla fusca but smaller and broader-winged and, in the male, with a white head. Larva feeds on Small-leaved Lime.