Thursday 13 July 2017

Some IDs & confirmations please.

In order I think I have

Treble-brown Spot

 Acrobasis consociella or Ephestia sp ?

 Aethes sp - but which one?

Agonopterix heracliana - but the season is wrong?

Phtheochroa rugosana

 Small Phoenix

Single-dotted Wave

Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford






5 comments:

  1. Hi Mark, your Treble Brown Spot (note the way that it should be written) may be correct but it does look a bit odd to me. The second does appear to be an Ephestia (probably unicolorella or whatever it is called this week). The next is Agonopterix heracliana/ciliella and I've been getting fresh examples over the last week or two which isn't unusual. The last three are indeed as you have named them.

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  2. The top moth is not a Treble Brown Spot, it looks like another Single-dotted Wave.

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  3. thanks for the replies - i ended up with Treble Brown Spot as there is a dot on the underwings - it is an odd looking one though

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  4. The Agonopterix is a good candidate for ciliella. Did you look at the hindwing cilia?

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  5. Sorry to say this again Mark but the top moth is a Single-dotted Wave not a Treble Brown Spot. I get lots of both and this is a fairly standard form of the former, there is very little variability in the latter. Try google images for Single-dotted Wave and you will quickly find some that look just like yours.

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