Sussex Moth Group: Caryocolum tricolorella

Caryocolum tricolorella (Haworth, 1812)

Beautiful Groundling
(Three-colour Groundling)
35.1370 (B&F: 834)

Synonym(s):
Caryocolum contigua (Haworth, 1828)

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

Number of records: 11
Recorded in: 11 1km grid squares
Date of most recent record: 30 vi 2021

Identification
difficulty

: 4Adult: Dissection required

Resident. Both larvae and adults occur singly or sparingly in both vice-counties. Single-brooded, flying mainly from the third week of July to the third week of August. Larvae feed on the flower-heads of greater stitchwort (Pratt, 2011).

Findon Valley, 3 viii 2011
Photo: Mike Snelling

Distribution at 1km scale

Phenology (adult)

Phenology (larval)