Wednesday 10 October 2012

Corvo Moths

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Help! :-)

5 comments:

Bomber said...

Pete, these off top of my head. Will do bit of research on the ones I cant do.
1=Vestal,
2=?
3=White Speck
4=Large Yellow Underwing and ? Turnip
5=White Speck x2
6=Micro (!)
7=? Chilo Phragmitella
8=? Monopsis sp
9=E postvittana?
10=?
11=Pyrale sp
12= same as 2?
13=White Speck + ? worn White Speck
Cheers

Peter Alfrey said...

Cheers Paul,
A lot of them look darker than back home? They have a sooty look to them.

sambbryo said...

2 & 12 look interesting, could be a macro or a Pyrale (was thinking licarsisalis but doesn't look right resting posture)
4 has a Pearly Underwing not a Turnip (dark, with a pale thoracic crest)
6 a Tortricid probably Rhopobota naevana or perhaps Crocidosema plebejana
7 looks more like Haimbachia cicatricella than Chilo because of short palps
8 Monopis imella (yellow costal streak) or something non-British
11 Pempeliella dilutella or more likely something non-British
I agree with Bomber's macros. Did you get anything else, eg Wainscot spp?
Sam Bryo

Peter Alfrey said...

Hi Sam,
No Wainscots that I recognised. Thanks for the ids.
I've put some more up on a new post-one very distinctive one that Darryl found in the woods.
Thanks again chaps
Peter

Darryl said...

Hi all,
As mentioned in the comment for the later post, I've found a checklist; using Bomber and Sam's comments as a guide and comparing them to the checklist, photos, etc., my best guesses are:

1. Vestal
2. Galgula partita Wedgling Moth
3. White Speck
4. Large Yellow Underwing & Turnip Moth or Pearly Underwing
5. White Speck
6. possibly Crocidosema plebejana or Rhopobota naevana
7. possibly Bactra lancealana
8. possibly Monopis crocicapitella
9. Epiphyas postvittana
10. Galgula partita Wedgling Moth
11. no idea (a crambid or pyralid)
12. Galgula partita Wedgling Moth
13. White Speck

Feel free to correct anything (this comment or the other), moths are *not* my main thing, as you can probably tell.

Peter, could you number the photos in the original blog posts? Then we can email the author of the checklist, refer him to specific images and get him to look at any that remain possibles/probables.