[593] Phyllonorycter comparella
[594] Gypsonoma minutana
After not recording any Phyllonorycter leaf mining moths to the garden at all previously, this year has been remarkable with multiple individuals of several species. Perhaps I am looking harder at the 'dust' at the bottom of the trap? This one looked distinctive and I was hopeful of putting it down to a particular species:
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| Phyllonorycter comparella 17.07.2020 |
Despite suggestions of several species including P. pastorella which has been recorded in the village before I couldn't find an exact match. This was going to be another one I had to let go as being unidentifiable until I trapped a near identical individual on 24 July:
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| Phyllonorycter comparella 24.07.2020 |
So this made me put in some more effort to find out what they might be. Finally, I found a match of P. comparella, a rare species of white and grey poplar. There are limited photographs of adults available but ones from Germany etc are compellingly similar.
In contrast, I should have worked out this Gypsonoma minutana more readily as I had recorded it at Corbett Street:
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| Gypsonoma minutana |
Other good moths included my second and third Mere Wainscots:
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| Mere Wainscot Photedes fluxa |
This superb Bordered Sallow was also only the second I have recorded:
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| Bordered Sallow Pyrrhia umbra |
Continuing the theme of second records for the garden was this Acleris logiana:
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| Acleris logiana |
New for the year was the smart tortrix Eucosma conterminana:
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| Eucosma conterminana |
