Moth Sightings 2012 – BC Upper Thames Branch

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Species List 2012 – Last updated 13/05/12
(most recent additions in red text)

TOTAL SPECIES RECORDED
151
(Count for end Dec. 2011 was 1,041, 909 in 2010, 811 in 2009 & 766 in 2008)

 

Please note: Caterpillars, eggs and pupae of moths are included in the UTB Moth Species Count, so please

keep your eyes open for these other life stages. Some moths, such as the Striped Lychnis,

are rarely seen in the adult form but can be found quite easily as caterpillars. The Species Count

will only be increased by one even if all 4 life stages of a moth have been found during the year.

 

 

Macros = 99, Micros = 52

 

 

Angle Shades (caterpillar 10/01/12, adult 22/02/12)

Birch Mocha

Blossom Underwing

Blue-bordered Carpet Moth (eggs 01/01/12)

Brick Moth

Brimstone

Brindled Beauty

Brindled Pug

Buttoned Snout

Chestnut

Chinese Character

Chocolate-tip

Cinnabar

Clouded Drab

Common Carpet

Common Heath

Common Pug

Common Quaker

Coxcomb Prominent

Dark Chestnut

Dotted Border

Dotted Chestnut

Double-striped Pug

Early Grey

Early Moth

Early Thorn

Early Tooth-striped

Emperor Moth

Engrailed

Feathered Thorn (eggs 27/01/12)

Flame Shoulder

Frosted Green

Garden Carpet

Green Carpet

Grey Pine Carpet

Grey Shoulder-knot

Hebrew Character

Herald

Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Iron Prominent

Knot Grass

Lackey moth (eggs 23/03/12)

Lead-coloured Drab

Least Black Arches

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Light Orange Underwing

Lunar Marbled Brown

March Moth

Mottled Grey

Mottled Pug

Mottled Umber

Muslin Moth

Northern Drab

Northern Winter Moth

Nut-tree Tussock

Oak Beauty

Oak-tree Pug

Orange Underwing

Pale Brindled Beauty

Pale Mottled Willow

Pale Pinion

Pale Prominent

Pebble Hook-tip

Pebble Prominent

Pine Beauty

Poplar Kitten

Powdered Quaker

Purple Bar

Purple Thorn

Red Chestnut

Red Twin-spot Carpet

Red-green Carpet

Ruby Tiger

Satellite

Scalloped Hazel

Scarce Prominent

Scarlet Tiger (caterpillar 29/02/12)

Seraphim

Shoulder Stripe

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Silver Y

Small Brindled Beauty

Small Quaker

Spectacle

Spring Usher

Square-spot Rustic (caterpillar 01/03/12)

Streamer

Swallow Prominent

Tawny-barred Angle

Twin-spotted Quaker

Vapourer Moth (eggs 28/01/12)

V-Pug

Water Carpet

Waved Umber

White Ermine

White-marked

Winter Moth

Yellow Horned

Yellow-barred Brindle

 

 

Acleris cristana

Acleris literana

Acleris schalleriana

Acrolepiopsis assectella (Leek moth)

Adela cuprella

Adela reaumurella

Adela rufimitrella

Aethes piercei

Agonopterix alstromeriana

Agonopterix arenella

Agonopterix heracliana

Agonopterix ocellana

Alucita hexadactyla (Six/Many/Twenty-plume Moth)

Amblyptilia acanthadactyla

Aphomia sociella (Bee Moth)

Argyresthia trifasciata

Caloptilia elongella

Caloptilia semifascia

Caloptilia syringella

Cameraria ohridella

Cnephasia stephensiana

Cydia ulicetana

Depressaria heraclei (Parsnip Moth)

Dichrorampha plumbagana

Diurnea fagella

Emmelina monodactyla (Common Plume moth)

Endothenia gentianaeana

Endrosis sarcitrella (White-shouldered House-moth)

Epiphyas postvittana (Light Brown Apple Moth)

Eriocrania subpurpurella

Esperia sulphurella

Eudonia angustea

Grapholita jungiella

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Incurvaria masculella

Limnaecia phragmitella (larva 19/03/12)

Mompha subbistrigella

Neofaculta ericetella

Pammene giganteana

Pancalia leuwenhoekella

Plutella xylostella

Pseudococcyx turionella (Pine Bud Moth)

Pyrausta aurata

Pyrausta despicata (formerly P. cespitalis)

Pyrausta purpuralis

Rhopobota stagnana

Semioscopis avellanella

Semioscopis steinkellneriana

Tortricodes alternella

Ypsolopha mucronella

Ypsolopha ustella

Zelleria hepariella

 

 

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