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Gastes, Aquitaine, France
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Moma alpium. Source: Own work. Author:
AfroBrazilian.
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Dorsal. Catalog no.: BC ZSM Lep 34727. Specimen ID: 1451909. Field no.: BC ZSM Lep 34727. Taxon rep.: Moma abbreviata. Image quality: 1. Aspect ratio: 1.333.
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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
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 11.06.2012, days МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 11.06.2012, днём
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Odintsovsky District, near village Pestovo, 24.07.2009, days МО, Одинцовский р-н, окрестности деревни Пестово, 24.07.2009, днём
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Lateral larva..
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Summary[
edit] Description: Deutsch: Seladoneule (Moma alpium) in Graz, Waltendorf. Date: 4 July 2018, 01:44:20. Source: Own work. Author:
Christian Pirkl.
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Dorsal..
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France Trip - Las Descargues - 27/06/16 to 01/07/16 - Part One - Macro's Hello all. I recently got back from a really enjoyable 5 nights of Moth trapping, Butterfly and Bird watching in the Midi-Pyrenees. I went with good friends Roger and Steve whom accompany me on many trips out in our County or Hertfordshire. It was decided at the end of last year that we should go for a short week away to sample some of the Moths that would be on offer in South-Wast France. The article below is copied from Robin Howard's Lot Moths website. He describes it perfectly so didn't feel the need to re-write it! "The Gite that we stayed in lies in a stunningly beautiful part of the Haute Quercy in the Lot southwest France. Located at the end of a ridge overlooking the Bave Valley it is surrounded by rolling, wooded hills, deep, river-cut gorges and on the nearby Causse, limestone pavement. The proximity of the limestone Causse de Gramat and volcanic Massif Central have produced a complex local geology that has formed the basis for a mosaic of habitats supporting a diverse flora with a rich moth and butterfly fauna. Over 1820 species have been recorded so far from the immediate area with more than 1600 species taken from the environs of the farm alone. Mercury vapour and actinic traps are run throughout the year in and around the farm with weekly forays made onto the limestone pavement and local poplar plantations, whilst the nearby volcanic peaks are regularly visited during the summer months for the more esoteric species. For further information regarding holidays and research opportunities at our farm and for a full description of the area and available accommodation please visit our sister site at
www.lasdescargues.com or email us for a comprehensive information pack". Robin and Sue are both fantastic hosts and could not do enough for you, I urge anyone to go there and experience the amazing wildlife that is on offer there. The species site list is in excess of an incredible 2000 species of Moth! In 16 years that is incredible, and shows how special this habitat really is. Our target was 300 species and with over 200 Macro's we may just get to the 300 mark with the Micro's still to sort. We ran 2 static traps in the garden (Both MV 125s) and I brought my 160w MBT Blended bulb on a tripod. We then had access to a further two traps, an MV Robinson and an Actinic Midi-Robinson which we could take further afield, in fact we tried three further sites. Macro Moths listed so far... Species in red are completely new to me The Micro's are still pending and a lot are so far unnamed! 212 Species Adactylotis contaminaria Alchymist Alder Kitten Alder Moth Alychmist Anaplectoides prasina Angle Shades Angle-striped Sallow Atypha pulmonaris Balsam Carpet Barred Hook-tip Barred Red Barred Yellow (only at Causse) Beautiful Golden-Y Beautiful Hook-tip Bird's Wing Black Arches Black V-moth Blood-vein Bordered Beauty Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Brindled White-spot Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Broken-barred Carpet Brown Rustic Brown Silver-lines Brussels Lace Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff-tip Burnished Brass Caradrina aspersa Chequered Wave Clay Fan-foot Clouded Border Clouded Magpie Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Emerald Common Footman Common Wainscot Common White Wave Coronet Cream Wave Cream-spot Tiger Dagger sp Dark Arches Dark Umber Delicate Dingy Footman Double Square-spot Double-striped Pug Dun-bar Dwarf Cream Wave Eastern Bordered Straw Elephant Hawk-moth Engrailed sp Fan-foot Feathered Footman Festoon Fiery Clearwing Flame Flame Shoulder Four-dotted Footman (only at Causse) Four-spotted Footman Fox Moth Foxglove Pug Gnophos furcatus Goat Moth Grass Emerald Great Oak Beauty Green Arches Green Pug Green Silver-lines Grey Arches Grey Pug Grey-pine Carpet Guernsey Underwing Handmaid Heart & Club Heart & Dart Heart Moth Herald Hoary Footman Hoplodrina respersa Horse Chestnut Humming-bird Hawk-moth Idaea deversaria Idaea macilentaria Idaea moniliata Idia calvaria Iron Prominent Isle of Wight Wave Ivory Footman Jubilee Fan-foot Lace Border Lackey Lamprosticta culta Large Emerald Large Yellow Underwing Latin Latticed Heath Least Carpet Least Carpet Leopard Moth Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Swallow Prominent Lesser Treble-bar Lesser Yellow Underwing Lewes Wave Light Emerald Lilac Beauty Lobster Moth Lycophotia erythrina Marbled Brown Marbled Minor Marbled White-spot Mediterranean lace border Miller Minor Shoulder-knot Mottled Rustic Nut-tree Tussock Oak Hawk-moth Oak Hook-tip Orache Moth Orange Footman Orange Moth Pale Mottled Willow Pale Oak Beauty Pale Oak Beauty Pale Shoulder Passenger Peach Blossom Pebble Prominent Pebble Prominent Peppered Moth Perigune narbonea Perizoma lugdunaria Petrophora narbonea Phalera bucephaloides Pine Hawk-moth Pine Processionary Pine-tree Lappet Plain Wave Plum Lappet Poplar Lappet Portland Riband Wave Powdered Rustic Privet Hawk-moth Purple Bar Red-necked Footman Rhodostrophia calabra Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Marbled Ruby Tiger Rufous Minor Rustic Scallop Shell Scarce Blackneck Scarce Footman Scarce Merveille du-jour Scarce Silver-lines Scarlet Tiger Scorched Carpet Scorched Wing September Thorn Setaceous Hebrew Character Shaded Annulet Shaded Fan-foot Shark Shears Short-cloaked Moth (only at Causse) Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Single-dotted Wave Small Angle Shades Small Blood-vein Small Dusty Wave Small Emerald Small Fan-foot Small Fan-footed Wave Small Purple-barred Small Ranunculus Small White Wave Snout Southern Wainscot Speckled Beauty Speckled Yellow Spectacle Straw Belle Swallow-tailed Moth Swarthy Annulet Tawny Prominent Tawny Wave Tawny-barred Angle Tephronia sepiaria Toadflax Brocade Treble Brown Spot Turnip Moth Uncertain Vine's Rustic V-moth V-Pug White Ermine White-point Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail
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Summary[
edit] Description: Moma alpium English: Scarce Merveille du Jour Polski: Pyszałek orion. Date: 9 June 2015. Source: Own work. Author:
Jerzy Strzelecki.
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Lateral..
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Summary[
edit] Description: Nederlands: Op een Spiegel. Date: 29 May 2017, 00:06:47. Source: Own work. Author:
Rolf Tuinstra.
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Exemplar found: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Serebryano-Prudsky District, near station 152nd kilometer, 03.06.2010, on common oak (Quercus robur) bark, days МО, Серебряно-Прудский р-н, окрестности платформы 152 км., 03.06.2010, на коре дуба, днём
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Summary[
edit] Description: Deutsch: Seladoneule (Moma alpium) in Graz, Waltendorf. Date: 4 July 2018, 01:34:31. Source: Own work. Author:
Christian Pirkl.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Nederlands: Op een spiegel. Date: 29 May 2017, 00:57:19. Source: Own work. Author:
Rolf Tuinstra.
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Dorsal..
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Summary[
edit] Description: Deutsch: Seladoneule (Moma alpium) in Graz, Waltendorf. Date: 4 July 2018, 01:28:44. Source: Own work. Author:
Christian Pirkl.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Moma alpium English: Scarce Merveille du Jour Polski: Pyszałek orion. Date: 12 June 2015. Source: Own work. Author:
Jerzy Strzelecki.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Moma alpium, Insect collection SLU, Uppsala. Date: 25 February 2013, 17:19:06. Source: Own work. Author:
Vítězslav Maňák (SLU).
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Moma alpium. Source: Own work. Author:
AfroBrazilian.