Agonopterix nervosa

    Dark-fringed Flat-body

    DepressariidaeABH 32.03 B&F 706

    Much more common and widespread than its close relation sharing gorse as a foodplant, A. umbellana.  Reasonably frequent in the western uplands and regularly recorded around Berrow and Burnham-on-Sea; also on gorse-rich sites on the Mendips.

    Adult Verification Grade: 2

    Dark-fringed Flat-body (Agonopterix nervosa) photographed in Somerset by Christopher Iles