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Ethmia terminella

Checklist Number
33.004 [B&F: 0717]

Verification
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Classification

Family:Ethmiidae
Subfamily:Ethmiinae
Genus:Ethmia
Species:terminella
Authority:Fletcher, 1938

Nationally scarce (Na) on shingle beaches in east Sussex, north Essex and Kent, where first discovered in Britain at Dungeness in June 1937. Not recorded in Hampshire or on the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 16-22 mm. Larva feeds on flowers and unripe seeds of Viper's Bugloss, living between flowers spun together with silk, over-wintering as a pupa.