Common Marbled Carpet Dysstroma truncata

21/09/2022: 15W actinic trap; Llangennith, Gower, S Wales.

 

I’d not seen an Autumnal Rustic since trapping on Moel Findeg, Denbighshire in 2018, so it was good to see two in the trap this morning. One of them posed well, before eventually scuttling away and backing itself carefully into a crevice of a stone wall. Windy conditions did not make photography easy, and the only other worthwhile result was of a Common Marbled Carpet, well camouflaged when released onto a tree trunk.

 

More details:

www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/dysstroma-truncata/

species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000146497

www.glamorganmoths.org.uk/moths/1790

15W actinic trap

Autumnal Rustic (2)

Centre-barred Sallow (1)

Common Marbled Carpet (1)

Garden Carpet (1)

Large Yellow Underwing (14)

Pale mottled Willow (1)

Rosy Rustic (1)

Snout (1)

Square-spot Rustic (3)

Willow Beauty (1)

 

Emmelina monodactyla (Common Plume) (1)

 

 

 

Done