- click for General Verification Guidelines | - click for Specific Verification Guidelines 
- Rare / Uncommon / Scarce 
- Leaf Miner 
- Day-flying
- care required in the identification process, as confusion with similar species is likely - quality photographs required. ID pointers: Forewing is brown becoming reddish or orangney brown towards the dorsum. with a dark fused double spot at the base of the cleft. Forewing cleft into lobes from just beyond two thirds. A longitudinal spot in the dorsal half of the costal lobe and a small dark spot just beyond one-third.
Distribution: (Last record: 14/09/2024 at Ilkeston ) - A very localised species in Derbyshire, as it is eleswhere in Britian. It was introduced in the late 1960’s and is spreading. Garden records may originate from larvae introduced with cultivated plants of S.Hypnoides, but the moth is able to spread between gardens, and has mainly been found in areas not very distant from wild populations of S. hypnoides (Mossy Saxifrage). Larvae have been found in the Derbyshire Dales where wild S.Hynoides exists.
*** Last updated on 10 March 2025 by RP ***
Last Recorded Date: 14/09/2024
Last Recorded By: Brian Hobby
Last Recorded General Area: Ilkeston
No First Date Information Recorded
IMAGES BELOW: Buxton, Derbyshire – Ian White© – Cromford, Derbyshire – Clive Ashton©
45.019 BF1506 Stenoptilia millieridactyla -June 2024 - Buxton - Ian White ©