Epichnopterix plumella ([D. & S.]) Res., (1836)-I980. Grasses. Wdspd and f.c. especially in the
south and east. 40 *Epping (Doubleday, E. 1836).
E. retiella (Newman) Res., 1849-1979. Grasses in salt-marshes. Loc. f.c. The generic name
Whittleia Tutt, 1900, now reduced to synonomy, was bestowed in honour of F.G. Whittle. 88
*Southend by a "young friend" (Stevens, 1850).
TINEIDAE
The clothes moth family. Mostly small or medium-sized moths, many with
dull coloration. The larvae feed, usually from a portable case or a silken tube,
on stored products of animal or vegetable origin, in dead wood or fungi, on
lichens or in nests of birds, mammals or Hymenoptera. Some are pests of
economic importance. Foreign species are sometimes accidentally imported in
cargoes and some of these become established in Britain. Essex, because of its
geographical position, is particularly liable to receive such adventive species.
Of the 55 species on the British list (including adventives), 24 have been
recorded in Essex and several others are likely to occur.
Morophaga choragella ([D. & S.]) (boleti Fabr.) Res.. (1835)-1979. Fungi and dead wood. F.c. in
and around Epping Forest, elsewhere loc. and r.
VC 18. 48 *Wanstead Flats (Curtis, 1835; CWP); 49 Epping and Hainault Forests, many
records, Wood (1854)-1979; 40 Epping (Stainton, 1859; VCH); 58 Rainham (GSR); 69 Ingrave
(IM); 88 Southend (Whittle, 1903). VC 19.41 Little Hallingbury, 1976 (RWJU); 02 Colchester
(VCH).
Infurcitinea argentimaculella (Staint.) Res., 1861-1976. Lichens. Loc. and rather r.
VC 18. 48 *"Miller said this occurred at Wanstead" (Healy diary, 28 Feb. 1861); 40 Epping
(VCH); 68 Mucking by CRNB (Pierce, 1918). VC 19. 53 Audley End (AME); 02 Colchester
(VCH).
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