Saturday 8 July 2017

Parc Slip

I set the trap on wednesday night and had a very busy trap in the morning with 280 moths of about 90 species. Plenty of FFY with buff footman, phoenix, swallow-tail, Argolamprotes micella (x5), Donacaula forficella (2nd ever), Paraswammerdamia nebulella (3rd ever) some highlights. I also had a lot of micros, some of which I need help with please and most of which would be new if confirmed. 2 new species I am pretty confident about include Apotomis semifasciana and Epagoge grotiana. Apologies for terrible quality of most of the photos - my excuse is that I was in a rush...
1. Acrobasis marmorea?
2. Coleophora lineolea?
3. Coleophora trifolii?
 
4. Nepticulid? 
5. Not sure
6. Phalonidia manniana?

7. Pseudatemelia josephinae?


5 comments:

  1. 1. agreed
    2. COuld be, but hard to be sure of Coleophora spp from photos
    3. Depends how big it was. C trifolii is much bigger than the other metallic species
    4. Not a nepticulid but I don't have any better suggestions
    5. Epinotia cruciana
    6. Looks good I think, but not one I know
    7. WOuld need gen det to be sure

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  2. Tricky bunch.
    1. Yes I think A. marmorea
    2. I wouldn't do a pale Coleophora from a photo - dissection job as far as I'm concerned.
    3. Could be, but depends on the size C. trifolii is the biggest of the glossy green ones by some distance.
    4. isn't a Nepticulid - it lacks the eye caps. Maybe an Elachista or Ocnerostoma?
    5. looks like Epinotia cruciana.
    I'll get back to you on the other two shortly.

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  3. Thanks both - synchronised replies!

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  4. Funny that after 3 days of no replies to this post we both replied at exactly the same time! And good to see we are in agreement.

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