Crabo LG, Davis M, Hammond P, Mustelin T, Shepard J
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Summary[edit] Description: English: Resapamea innota. Date: 2013. Source: Crabo LG, Davis M, Hammond P, Mustelin T, Shepard J; 2013: Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on Chytolita Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae) ZooKeys 264: 85–123 (2013) doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4304. Author: Crabo LG, Davis M, Hammond P, Mustelin T, Shepard J.
Description: Family: Chrysomelidae Size: 4-5 mm Origin: Northern and Central Europe Ecology: on Alnus and Corylus spp Location: Germany, Bavaria, Seeshaupt Osterseen leg det. U.Schmit, 1975 Photo: U.Schmidt, 2011. Date: 26 March 2011, 20:57. Source: Luperus longicornis (Fabricius, 1781) male. Author: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. Camera location47° 47′ 21.01″ N, 11° 18′ 46.18″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 47.789170; 11.312828.
Trip to Las Descargues 8th August - 18th August - Macro Moths I made a trip back to Robin Howard's beautiful place in the Midi-pyrenees with my wife on the second week of August. We planned to stay over our anniversary but we were unsure of what the weather would be like, so very opted for a slightly longer stay of 10 days incase the weather wasn't too good. We are very glad that we did as the first 4 days were quite wet and windy and with daytime temperatures not getting much higher than 18 degrees, it felt like the trip back in June al over again! Thankfully by Saturday the temperature had recovered and we were enjoying the sunshine finally and by Monday we made use of the stunning swimming pool that we had all to ourselves (although it was quite cold and took your breathe away). Typically on the last day (Thursday) it was really warm and the pool felt a bit warmer so we made the most of it! Of course Moths were once again on the agenda, a I was granted permission to use traps aeound thr garden, extending to the ridge with a generator if I wanted to. The first few nights were hard going and measly pickings but of course every trap had it's surprises in, and having not been here in August before there were plenty of moths that i'd never seen before. 2 of the traps on the first couple of nights got water-logged and then I had the challenging time of dealing with lively Hornets, albeit they are quite docile once the sun has rose and some mornings I just had to wait for it to get light before I could get near the traps. We also lost one of the bulbs in the lower garden, I woke up to find it glowing green/white and thought it was odd and then getting nearer and realising the bulb had smashed, not good as Robin didn't have a 3-pin spare. How on earth it smashed when we had no rain that night (and it had a secure rainguard on it anyway) is beyond me. I could still see the light in my vision for about 15 minutes after which was slightly worrying! By Saturday and Sunday, nights were really warm and temperatures kept in the high teens some nights even when the sky had cleared and working the traps in the morning (sometimes 4) was pretty hard work to say the least. Potting stuff up I didn't recognise, keeping a list on a notepad, the traps were full up and some mornings each trap had about 400 moths in, and I had 4 running! The best night I had around 160 species which is pretty incredible for August apprarently. This first post I will list the Macro Moths that I saw on my trip. I still have a few for identification as always but so far the Macro Moth species list stands at 193 species. Species highlighted in red are completely new to me. All of the Macro Moth species that I took photos of can now be viewed on my flickr page HERE Adactylotis contaminaria Angle Shades Barred Hook-tip Beautiful Hook-tip Beautiful Marbled Beautiful Yellow Underwing Birch Mocha Bird's Wing Black Arches Black V Moth Blair's Mocha Blood-vein Bordered White Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Broad-barred White Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Brussels Lace Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Campion Chinese Character Clay Clay Triple-lines Cloaked Carpet Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Buff Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Footman Common Rustic Common Wainscot Common Wave Common White Wave Copper Underwing Coronet Coxcomb Prominent Crescent Dart Dark Spectacle Dark Sword-grass Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Delicate Dewick's Plusia Dingy Footman Dotted Clay Double-striped Pug Drymonia querna Dumeril's Rustic Dun-bar Dusky Marbled Brown Ear Moth Early Thorn Engrailed Epilecta linogrisea Essex Emerald Eupithecia semigraphata or impurata False Mocha Festoon Figure of Eighty Flame Shoulder Flounced Rustic Four-spotted Footman Foxglove Pug Frosted Yellow Garden Carpet Garden Tiger Gem Grass Emerald Great Dart Green Silver-lines Grey Dagger Gypsy Moth Heart & Dart Hoary Footman Horse Chestnut Humming-bird Hawk-moth Idaea deversaria Idia calvaria Iron Prominent Jersey Emerald Jersey Tiger Knot Grass Large Yellow Underwing Latin Latticed Heath Least Yellow Underwing Leopard Moth Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Swallow Prominent Lesser Treble-bar Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Emerald Lime Hawk-moth Lime-speck Pug Lobster Moth Lunar Thorn Lychnis Lythria cruentaria Maiden's Blush Marbled Clover Miller Nutmeg Nut-tree Tussock Oak Eggar Oak Hook-tip Oak Processionary Orache Moth Orange Footman Paidia rica Pale Mottled Willow Pale Oak Beauty Pale Prominent Pale Shoulder Passenger Peach Blossom Peacock Moth Pebble Hook-tip Peppered Moth Phoenix Pigmy Footman Pine Hawk-moth Pine Processionary Pine-tree Lappet Pinion-streaked Snout Plum Lappet Poplar Hawk-moth Poplar Kitten Poplar Lappet Portland Riband Wave Red Twin-spot Carpet Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Marbled Ruby Tiger Rustic Satin Wave Scalloped Hook-tip Scarce Bordered Straw Scarce Footman Scarce Merveille du Jour Scarlet Tiger Scopula tesselaria Scorched Wing Setaceous Hebrew Character Shark Shears Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Small Angle Shades Small Black Arches Small Blood-vein Small Dusty Wave Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Mottled Willow Small Purple-barred Small Ranunculus Small Rivulet Small White Wave Snout Speckled Beauty Spotted Sulphur Square-spotted Clay Straw Dot Straw Underwing Swallow Prominent Synopsia sociaria Tawny Prominent Tawny-barred Angle Tephronia sepiaria Toadflax Brocade Treble-bar Tree-lichen Beauty True Lover's Knot Vestal Vine's Rustic Waved Umber White Ermine White-point White-speck Willow Beauty Wood Carpet Yellow Shell Yellow-barred Brindle Yellow-headed Phoenix Yellow-tail
Summary[edit] Description: Heatwave continues More trapping again this week and I put the trap out again on the most favourable night that the forecasters had predicted. Thursday morning saw me going through the trap once again at 6am and jotting down the species present. I would love to trap every night, but couldn't justify the time making lists day after day, often repeating the same species. The trap wasn't brimming this morning but there was one surprise towards the bottom. The wetland Pyralid Donacaula forficella. A little tatty but a very welcome addition to the ever growing garden list. A nice collection of Micros were also new for the year. Catch Report - 24/07/14 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths 1x Flounced Rustic [NFY] 1x Small Rivulet [NFY] 1x Black Arches 1x Bright-line Brown-eye 1x Brimstone Moth 1x Buff Arches 2x Buff Footman 1x Buff-tip 1x Cloaked Minor 1x Common Carpet 3x Common Footman 15x Common Rustic 1x Dark Arches 8x Dot Moth 1x Double Square-spot 1x Double-striped Pug 2x Dun-bar 1x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 2x Fern 2x Flame Shoulder 2x Garden Carpet 1x Grey Dagger 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 1x Large Yellow Underwing 2x Least Carpet 3x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1x Light Arches 1x Maple Prominent 1x Maple Pug 1x Nutmeg 1x Pale Prominent 2x Peppered Moth 1x Phoenix 12x Riband Wave 2x Scalloped Oak 1x Scarce Footman 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character 1x Shuttle-shaped Dart 3x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Emerald 1x Small Fan-footed Wave 1x Straw Underwing 2x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 2x Yellow Shell 2x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Donacaula forficella [NFG] 1x Eucosma hohenwartiana [NFG] 2x Acentria ephemerella [NFY] 2x Hypatima rhomboidella [NFY] 1x Bucculatrix thoracella [NFY] 1x Tinea semifulvella [NFY] 1x Agriphila tristella [NFY] 1x Pyrausta aurata [NFY] 2x Phyllonorycter harrisella 1x Helcystogramma rufescens 1x Aphomia sociella 2x Pandemis corylana 3x Bryotropha terrella 1x Epiphyas postvittana 1x Cydia splendana 1x Phlyctaenia coronata 1x Celypha striana 3x Yponomeuta evonymella 4x Batia unitella 12x Plutella xylostella 2x Pleuroptya ruralis 2x Agapeta hamana 14x Endotricha flammealis 1x Spilonota ocellana 2x Phycita roborella 1x Udea prunalis 3x Eudonia mercurella 2x Agriphila straminella 2x Crambus perlella 1x Hypsopygia costalis 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella. Date: 25 July 2014, 08:27. Source: [2353] Flounced Rustic (Luperina testacea). Author: Ben Sale from UK.