Monday, 19 July 2021

17th July - Mytholmroyd - 5th record for Yorkshire!!??

 228 moths of 69 species in a crazy night in my trap 

1. Phoenix
2. Scalloped Oak
3. Buff arches 3
4. Bee moth
5. Fan foot
6. Straw dot 6
7. Crambus pascuella
8. Clepsis consimilana
9. Knot grass
10. Muslin footman 2
11. Flame 5
12. Garden pebble
13. LYU 15
14. Common Footman 4
15. Eudonia lacustrata 17
16. Water veneer 4
17. Blastobasis adustella 4
18. Marbled minor 22
19. True lovers knot  18
20. Dark arches 4
21. GGV 5
22. Riband wave 8
23. Carcina quercana
24. Common rustic agg
25. Peppered 4
26. Cloaked minor 3
27. Celypha lacunana
28. Narrow winged pug
29. Bird cherry ermine 16
30. Northern Spinach
31. Eudonia truncicolella
32. Eudonia mercurella 3
33. Crambus lathoniellus
34. Large fruit tree tortrix
35. Heart and dart 2
36. Aproaerema anthyllidella 2
37. Swallow tailed 3
38. Brown house
39. Broad bordered yellow underwing
40. Lesser swallow prominent
41. Common wave 2
42. Agraphila straminella 6
43. Celypha striana
44. Purple clay 4
45. Crambus perlella 13
46. Coleophora sp 2
47. Antler 2
48. Bryotropha affinis
49. Snout
50. Green Pug 2
51. Rustic/uncertain
52. Ypsolopha ustella
53. Poplar Hawk
54. Lesser yellow underwing
55. Scarce silver lines
56. Diamondback 2
57. Blastobasis lacticolella
58. Common wainscot
59. Ingrailed clay 3
60. Scrobipalpa acuminatella
61. Epinotia ramella
62. Swammerdamia caesiella 3
63. Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
64. Bud Moth
65. Paraswammerdamia nebulella
66. Apple Fruit moth
67. Elachista albidella???
68. Ancylis achatana
69. Slender Brindle


The Elachista has 3 question marks next to it. This is because it would be a 5th record for Yorkshire, but requires dissection. However, the habitat makes it more likely than the equally rare alternatives!

Scarce silver lines

Lesser swallow prominent

Probable Elachista albidella

Probable Elachista albidella


                Probable Elachista albidella

1 comment:

Matthew Broadbent said...

Elachista albidella now confirmed