I'm guessing that the slimline Crambid is most likely to be Scoparia ambigualis, and the even more slimline white-shouldered moth is the splendidly-named Pseudoswammerdamia combinella, but as usual I'm very happy to be corrected.
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Sunday, 18 May 2014
More Maenol Micros
In contrast to the success stories of fellow moth-ers, Friday night was not very productive here, and last night was not much better. A couple of micros turned up which might be worthy of mention, if only to make up for the drabness of the last one I reported, namely Elachista canapennella.
I'm guessing that the slimline Crambid is most likely to be Scoparia ambigualis, and the even more slimline white-shouldered moth is the splendidly-named Pseudoswammerdamia combinella, but as usual I'm very happy to be corrected.
I'm guessing that the slimline Crambid is most likely to be Scoparia ambigualis, and the even more slimline white-shouldered moth is the splendidly-named Pseudoswammerdamia combinella, but as usual I'm very happy to be corrected.
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The white-shouldered slimline job looks a pretty moth - I don`t think I`ve seen it, so well done.
ReplyDeleteI hope to do a little trapping tonight, after a night off.
I also caught Pseudoswammerdamia combinella last night (at least, it was the same as the one above) - an attractive little thing - like a miniature buff-tip
ReplyDeleteThe Scoparid is Eudonia angustea - more slimline and with more pointy wings than S. ambigualis.
ReplyDeleteJealous of the combinella as I've never seen that one!
George
Thank you George. I did think that it was a bit slim for S. ambigualis, which I've had in the past. Eudonia angustea is a first for me.
ReplyDeleteI used to get combinella a couple of times a year when beating hedgerows in VC35: like other Swammerdamia types it's probably easiest got by day.
ReplyDeleteThe one that I caught turned up at about 4:30 just as I was starting to empty the trap but before I'd turned the light off
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