Francis Hickenbottom's Nature Notes: Moth list for Llandigige.

Francis Hickenbottom’s Nature Notes.

Moth list for Llandigige Fawr.

This is a list of species caught and identified at Llandigige using traps of the Skinner type. The traps have been used only a few times and a mercury vapour bulb has been used only twice, in conditions which were not ideal. The majority of the moths on the list are macro-moths.

Magpie moth (Abraxis grossulariata)

Spectacle (Abrostola tripartita)

Flounced chestnut (Agrochola helvola)

Dark arches (Apamea monoglypha)

Garden tiger (Arctia caja)

Silver Y (Autographa gamma)

Plain golden Y (Autographa jota)

Light emerald (Campaea margaritata)

Elephant hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor)

Small square-spot (Diarsia rubis)

Dingy footman (Eilema griseola)

Common footman (Eilema lurideola)

Canary-shouldered thorn (Ennomos alniaria)

Common carpet (Epirrhoe alternata alternata)

Drinker (Euthrix potatoria)

Buff arches (Habrosyne pyritoides)

Pod lover (Hadena perplexa caqpsophila)

Ghost moth (Hepialus humuli humuli)

Rosy rustic (Hydraecia micacea)

Four-spotted footman (Lithosia quadra)

Flounced rustic (Luperina testacea)

Lackey (Malacasoma neustria)

Common rustic (Mesapamea secalis)

Common wainscot (Mythimna pallens)

Lesser yellow underwing (Noctua comes)

Lesser broad-bordered (Noctua janthe)

yellow underwing

Large yellow underwing (Nocuta pronuba)

Pebble prominent (Notodonta ziczac)

Flame shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)

Brimstone moth (Opisthograptis luteolata)

Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala)

Mother of pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis)

Gold-spot (Plusia festucae)

Coxcomb prominent (Ptilodon capucina)

Herald (Scoliopteryx libatrix)

Early thorn (Selenia dentaria)

Peach blossom (Thyatira batis)

Setaceous hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum)

Square-spot rustic (Xestia xanthographa)