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Pyroderces argyrogrammos
Checklist Number34.011 [B&F: 0898a]
Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification
Classification
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Subfamily: | Cosmopteriginae |
| Genus: | Pyroderces |
| Species: | argyrogrammos |
| Authority: | (Zeller, 1847) |
Very rare immigrant (less than 10 previous UK records) from mainland Europe. Recorded once in the British Isles, in a garden MV trap on 16 May 2002 at La Broderie, St Peters, Guernsey. Larva feeds within flowers of Thistle, both Carduus and Cirsium, and Knapweed.
