To add to the queries on over-wintering species of this genus (below), on a night earlier this month my garden light trap yielded the following two micros:
Moth 1 (left) with a forewing length of 8.5 mm has an elongated costal blotch (or two overlapping blotches), the outer getting close to the wing apex, and could therefore be A. schalleriana.
Moth 2 (fw 8 mm) with a narrower profile, a costal blotch with a central clear area, and a slightly reticulate wing appearance. This one I thought more likely to be A. ferrugana/notana.
Both moths have short raised scales in rows, on the inner margin of the blotch and elsewhere. Pleased to have any comments.
John Thacker (Harwell, Oxon)
Hi John,
ReplyDeleteYou could be correct with the first although I personally would have retained that one for dissection. The second is definitely ferrugana/notana, almost certainly ferrugana which seems to me to be the more likely species in gardens locally, but dissection would be necessary to confirm.
Thanks, Dave : no further info since they were given their freedom!
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