Species Account for Nemophora fasciella
Nemophora fasciella (Fabricius, 1775) 07.004 
Horehound Longhorn
Lepidoptera: micromoths: Adelidae
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Taxonomic group: micro moths (Lepidoptera: micromoths) - County data
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Status: Section 41 Priority Species
Essex RDB: Listed
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The Horehound Long-horn Moth is a scarce species, distributed mainly in the south and south-east of England, but very local. The larval foodplant is black horehound (Ballota nigra), the larva feeding at first on the seeds and then later in a case made from fragments of the foodplant. References
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