Hi,
I'm hoping I've got in under the wire before this excellent facility moves to Facebook.
Here are two species that turned up a couple of nights ago. I'm suggesting that the first two images are of Agonopterix alstromeriana, and that the second pair are one of the Acleris species - maybe shalleriana.
Can someone confirm or put me straight? Many thanks,
David
Hello David,
ReplyDeleteThe first moth is definitely Agonopterix alstromeriana as you suggest. The second one I'm not so sure about and it isn't clear from the images whether the darker area around the thorax is simply a result of damage. Acleris schalleriana is a possibility (there are vaguely similar images on-line, eg on the West Midlands atlas site) but your example seems very light in ground colour compared to the those I see in our part of the world. I think it more likely to be one of the Acleris ferrugana/notana pair which need dissection to separate.
Many thanks, Dave - and good luck with the move to Facebook!
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