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Gelechia senticetella (Staudinger, 1859)

Cypress Gelechia
(Cypress Groundling)
35.0990 (B&F: 801a)


»Suborder: Glossata
  »Superfamily: Gelechioidea
    »Family: Gelechiidae
      »Subfamily: Gelechiinae
        »Tribe: Hypercalliini

Number of records: 54
Recorded in: 16 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 20 viii 2024
Identification 
difficulty 
: 2Adult: Can be confused with other species

The only Sussex records of this species are those of single specimens at actinic light on 25th July 2008 and 21st, 23rd and 27th July 2010, caught by M. Snelling in Findon Valley and a single individual at mv light by J. T. Radford in Walburton on 11th July 2010. The larvae feed on juniper and cypress. (Pratt,2011)

Gelechia senticetella
Crawley, 16 vii 2021
Photo: Anthony Bennett
Gelechia senticetella
Bracklesham, 03 viii 2015
Photo: Derek Lee
Gelechia senticetella
Findon Valley, 29 vii 2010
Photo: Mike Snelling

Distribution at 1km scale

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No larval records

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