Niditinea striolella
Wingspan about 12mm. Adult moths have a buff ground colour, irrorated with darker scales.
Determination by genitalia examination (gen. det.) required.
Various habitats.
On the wing from June to August.
Not much is written about the larval stages, but adults have been reared from birds' nests, especially those in nest boxes or holes made by woodpeckers etc.
This is a relatively scarce species, distributed mainly in the southern and south-eastern counties of England, extending westwards into parts of South Wales and northwards to Yorkshire. In the Butterfly Conservation's Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as Nationally Scarce B.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Harecroft Crescent
15 June 2023
male - confirmed by gen det
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Species profile
- Common names
- Brindled Clothes
- Species group:
- insect - moth
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Tineidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 07/07/2017 (Russell, Adrian)
- Last record:
- 15/06/2023 (Calow, Graham)
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