Mythimna

13,IV,2014 臺灣 南投 信義 望鄉 海拔2,300m Wangxiang, Xinyi, Nantou,Taiwan Alt.2,300m 盜夜蛾亞科Hadeninae 夜蛾科Noctuidae 參考：鞍馬山的蛾1,p.116 Reference: Moths of Anmashan Part 1, p.116

Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga Commons)(Lmbuga Galipedia)

After feeling pretty ill lately I still managed to set just the one trap last night and I am so glad I did, with what looked like a great night weather-wise, by the morning it was still warm with a little dew. In the trap was the usual pickings including a few new for year's Drinker, Willow Beauty, Uncertain, Beautiful Hook-tip (all trap regular's at this time of year) then my heart skipped a beat... a Delicate sitting at the bottom, a super migrant and one I have only ever seen abroad before and that was as far away as Slovenia! though this moth is more likely to have come from France. Further rummaging through the trap, yielded not 1 but 2 extra new moths for me. The first I looked at as a Shears, but no hang on... it's too brown, Tawny Shears it was! The 3rd I took with me to my CR to confirm that indeed it was my very first Wood Carpet. I guess double checking all of those Common Carpets had finally paid off! 3 ticks in a night was rather overwhelming I must say.

Catch Report - Braughing 25/06/12 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap Macro Moths

1x Delicate [NEW!] 1x Tawny Shears [NEW!] 1x Wood Carpet [NEW!] 1x Beautiful Hook-tip [NFY] 1x Drinker [NFY] 2x Willow Beauty [NFY] 2x Uncertain [NFY] 4x Angle Shades 2x Mottled Beauty 1x Spruce Carpet 7x Setaceous Hebrew Character 4x Nutmeg 2x Rustic Shoulder-knot 2x Spectacle 1x Eyed Hawk-moth 2x Privet Hawk-moth 1x Poplar Hawk-moth 2x Vine's Rustic 1x White Ermine 1x Buff Ermine 1x Common Footman 11x Brown Rustic 2x Large Nutmeg 4x Ingrailed Clay 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Silver-ground Carpet 2x Dark Arches 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 3x Cinnabar 1x Treble Brown Spot 1x Middle-barred Minor 1x Brimstone Moth 2x Clouded Silver 1x Light Emerald 2x Flame 1x Turnip 2x Heart & Dart 1x Scorched Wing 1x Blood-vein 2x Light Arches 2x Burnished Brass 1x Pale Prominent 1x Barred Straw 2x Orange Footman 1x Light Brocade 1x Common Wave

Micro Moths

1x Dipleurina lacustrata [NFY] 3x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 4x Udea Olivalis 1x Thistle Ermine Myelois circumvoluta 5x Chrysoteuchia culmella 3x Plum Tortrix Hedya pruniana 1x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella 4x Agapeta hamana 2x Scoparia ambigualis 3x Ephestia parasitella 2x Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana 2x Bee Moth Aphomia sociella

Field Trip - Canvey Island (Wick) - 02/08/11 Back to Essex and under probably the best conditions we've had this year, a trip was organised with 6 of us arranging to meet at the Morrison's Car Park at 9pm. It had been the hottest day of the year and te evening was very mild indeed under a cloudy sky. We set up on the concrete flats down near the coast and ran 4 traps, Don Down's 125w MV Tripod set-up, Graham's dual 40w Actinic and my 125w MV Robinson & 160w MBT Trap. The Moths came in at a steady pace to start with around Don's Tripod and then all of a sudden, it was hard to keep up and tick each species as they came in. Not quite as epic as our 126 species of Macro Moths last year, but we had a fair few new ones for the site and some local rarities to spice things up a bit! The actual site is still an absolute tip, as they continue to develop a road that will eventually lead to a distribution site, luckily much further over from this important site.

The Moths were superb including new Moths for me Dog's Tooth, Marbled Green, Reed Dagger, Sallow Kitten, Agdistis bennetii, Ebulea crocealis, Epiblema foenella, Eucosma campoliliana, Evergestis limbata and Stathmopoda pedella, so 10 new species was astonishing! Other species of note included 1 Crescent several White-points, 3 Garden Tiger's and the rare RDB3 Platytes alipinella was also very common there with at least 25 individuals, always nice to see!

Here is the provisional list that I made on the night, no counts were made by me and i'm probably missing a few as my pen run out of ink!

Macro Moths

Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Moth Brown-line Bright-eye Brown-tail Bulrush Wainscot Canary-shouldered Thorn [NFY] Cream-bordered Green Pea Clay Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Clouded Silver Common Carpet Common Footman Common Rustic Common Wainscot Copper Underwing Crescent Dark Arches Dog's Tooth [NEW!] Double-striped Pug Drinker Dun-bar Dusky Sallow Fen Wainscot Flame Shoulder Garden Tiger [NFY] Heart & Dart Knot Grass Large Yellow Underwing Least Carpet Least Yellow Underwing Lesser Cream Wave Lesser Yellow Underwing Lime-speck Pug Magpie Moth Marbled Beauty Marbled Green [NEW!] Marbled Minor Mullein Wave Nut-tree Tussock Oak Eggar Pale Prominent Pebble Hook-tip Plain Pug Poplar Hawk-moth Reed Dagger [NEW!] Riband Wave Rosy Footman Rosy Rustic Ruby Tiger Rustic Sallow Kitten [NEW!] Scalloped Oak Scarce Footman Scorched Carpet Shaded Pug Sharp-angled Peacock [NFY] Shuttle-shaped Dart Silky Wainscot [NFY] Silver-Y Single-dotted Wave Slender Pug Small Blood-vein Small Fan-footed Wave Small Scallop Smoky Wainscot Southern Wainscot Straw Dot Swallow Prominent Tawny-speckled Pug [NFY] Treble-bar Tree-lichen Beauty Turnip Moth Twin-spotted Wainscot Uncertain V-pug Vine's Rustic White-line Dart [NFY] White-point [NFY] Willow Beauty Yellow Shell Yellow-tail

Micro Moths

Agdistis bennetii [NEW!] Cochylis hybridella Ebulea crocealis [NEW!] Sitochroa palealis [NEW!] Epiblema foenella [NEW!] Eucosma campoliliana [NEW!] Evergestis limbata [NEW!] Evergestis estimalis [NEW!] Platytes alpinella Schoenobius gigantella Stathmopoda pedella [NEW!] Argyresthia goedartella Yponomeuta sp. Ypsolopha sequella Coleophora sop. Batia unitella Anacampsis blattariella Synaphe punctalis Helcystogramma rufescens Blastobasis lignea Limnaecia phragmitella Pandemis cerasana Epiphyas postvittana Celypha striana Apotomis betuletana Agapeta hamana Eudemis profundana Epinotia brunnichana Eucosma cana Eucosma obumbratana Cydia pomonella Calamotropha paludella Chrysoteuchia culmella Crambus perlella Agriphila tristella Catoptria pinella Catoptria falsella Pediasia aridella Scoparia ambigualis Eudonia pallida Cataclysta lemnata Evergestis forficalis Pyrausta aurata Phlyctaenia coronata Udea prunalis Endotricha flammealis Aphomia sociella Trachycera advenella