[1451] Matilella fusca

Moth deluge at Hexton for National Moth Night

Last Thursday we had a good night at Hexton, with 167 species in all, with two still pending identification.

It was a pretty good night weather wise as well with oodles of cloud cover and a very faint breeze and a minimum temperature at leaving time at 14 degrees.

 

It has taken me a few days to sort it all out but highlights were 8+ Royal Mantle, 1x Agriphila inquinatella, 1x Pyla fusca, 2x Wood Carpet, 2x Rosy Minor, 4x Barred Rivulet and no less than 10 Paratalanta hyalinalis, the rare Pyralid we discovered last year that hadn't been seen since 1937, evidently it is hear safe and sound and still in good numbers.

I didn't get to bed until 3am and was up at 6 so was thoroughly shattered!

 

The suspected Least Minor was just a very small Cloaked Minor (Least Minor is absent from the Herts list and most of the South)

The unusual Brocade sp that I took home has been agreed on just an unusual form of Dark Arches, I have certainly never seen anything like it.

Thanks to all of the chaps that turned up and a great turn out of 7 people, with 3 others helping me pack up it made it a lot more bearable, so thank you!

 

Catch Report - 23/07/15 - Hexton Chalk Pit - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap 1x 160w MBT Robinson Trap & 1x 80w Actinic + 26w CFL Suitcase Trap

 

167 Species - 95 Macros and 72 Micros

 

Macro Moths

 

 

2x Barred Rivulet [NEW!]

1x Barred Yellow

3x Beautiful Hook-tip

2x Black Arches

1x Bordered Sallow

3x Bright-line Brown-eye

5x Brimstone Moth

4x Brown Scallop

5x Brown-line Bright-eye

1x Buff Arches

3x Buff Footman

2x Burnished Brass

1x Campion

1x Chinese Character

10x Clay

6x Cloaked Minor

1x Clouded Border

2x Clouded Silver

2x Common Carpet

1x Common Footman

15+ Common Rustic

2x Common Wainscot

10x Dark Arches

1x Dark Umber

3x Dingy Footman

2x Dot Moth

10+ Double Square-spot

2x Dun-bar

2x Dusky Sallow

1x Dwarf Cream Wave

1x Ear Moth

1x Elephant Hawk-moth

1x Engrailed

5x Fern

3x Flame

4x Flame Shoulder

1x Garden Carpet

1x Green Arches

1x Grey/Dark Dagger (to be gen det)

1x Grey Pug

3x Haworth's Pug

1x Heart & Club

4x Heart & Dart

1x July Highflyer

1x Large Emerald

6x Large Twin-spot Carpet

5x Large Yellow Underwing

2x Latticed Heath

1x Least Carpet

2x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

2x Lesser Yellow Underwing

2x Light Arches

1x Lime-speck Pug

1x Marbled Beauty

2x Marbled Minor

2x Mottled Beauty

1x Mottled Rustic

4x Nut-tree Tussock

1x Nutmeg

1x Pebble Prominent

1x Peppered Moth

2x Pretty Chalk Carpet

1x Purple Bar

5x Red Twin-spot Carpet

10x Riband Wave

2x Rosy Minor [NEW!]

8+ Royal Mantle

6x Ruby Tiger

8x Rustic

2x Scalloped Oak

10+ Scarce Footman

5x Shaded Broad-bar

10+x Silver Y

2x Single-dotted Wave

2x Slender Brindle

2x Slender Pug

1x Small Emerald

7x Small Fan-footed Wave

10x Small Phoenix

1x Small Scallop

2x Small Waved Umber

1x Small Yellow Wave

10x Smoky Wainscot

1x Snout

2x Spectacle

2x Straw Dot

2x Swallow-tailed Moth

2x Sycamore

1x Toadflax Pug

5x Uncertain

1x V-pug

1x White-spotted Pug

2x Wood Carpet

4x Yellow Shell

2x Yellow-tail

 

Micro Moths

 

10+ Paratalanta hyalinalis

2x Blastobasis adustella

1x Blastobasis lacticolella

2x Bryotropha terrella

1x Agriphila inquinatella

1x Acleris aspersana

10+ Eucosma obumbratana

1x Eucosma hohenwartiana

1x Eucosma conterminana

15+ Eucosma cana

10+ Agapeta zoegana

3x Agapeta hamana

6x Agriphila straminea

1x Mompha subbistrigella

2x Clepsis consimilana

4x Pleuroptya ruralis

5x Pterophorus pentadactyla

3x Chrysoteuchia culmella

2x Plutella xylostella

10+ Eudonia lacustrata

5x Eudonia mercurella

3x Cnephasia sp

2x Carcina quercana

1x Batia lunaris

2x Syncopacma sp

5+ Endotricha flammealis

1x Agonopterix heracliana

2x Monopis weaverella

1x Blastodacna hellerella

1x Psyche casta (case)

2x Acleris forsskaleana

15+ Catoptria pinella

5x Acentria ephemerella

1x Helcystogramma rufescens

2x Udea prunalis

2x Cochylis hybridella

1x Cydia pomonella

1x Aphomia sociella

1x Hypsopygia costalis

2x Metzneria metzneriella

1x Acleris variegana

2x Aethes cnicana

2x Phycita roborella

1x Coleophora trifolii

2x Euzophera pinguis

1x Yponomeuta evonymella

10+ Crambus perlella

3x Stenoptilia pterodactyla

1x Archips xylosteana

1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana

1x Acrobasis advenella

1x Oegoconia sp

1x Teleiodes vulgella

1x Oncocera semirubella

1x Notocelia uddmanniana

2x Emmelina monodactyla

1x Lobesia abscisana

2x Archips podana

1x Acrobasis consociella

1x Rhopobota naevana

2x Cydia fagiglandana

3x Acrobasis suavella

1x Pyla fusca

1x Pammene aurita

1x Ditula angustiorana

2x Scoparia subfusca

1x Scoparia ambigualis

1x Pos Scoparia basistrigalis (to be gen det)

1x Mompha raschkiella

2x Spilonota ocellana

1x Aphelia paleana

2x Agonopterix liturosa

1x Cochylimorpha straminea

Done