I caught the two below last night, so presumably they are both the same species. The paler one looks rather like A. schalleriana, though that seems pretty unlikely as we are not on chalk here, but on clay, so I guess it is more likely to be a variant of A. ferrugana/notana.
I have retained the paler one if needed for dissection.
Hi Phil,
ReplyDeleteThose are both Acleris ferrugana/notana. It would be useful to keep one back for dissection to be sure but ferrugana is the most likely. There's no reason why you shouldn't see the much darker Acleris schalleriana, by the way. I get it regularly in the garden here which is on heavy clay (for example, on 13 occasions this winter between October and March). Around here its larvae must feed mostly on cultivated vibernums.
Thanks Dave, I have one which I will send to Peter in due course. Useful to know that schalleriana is much darker.
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