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20-06-2007, 02:59 PM
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| | | unidentified moth
Any ideas what this is? 
2.5cm long 
Closest I can get is a weird-looking, beat-up Marbled Beauty, but its not quite right I think?!!
Dull brown underwings.
Any Moth-heads out there?
All help appreciated.
Cheers.
TBR
Last edited by The Black Rabbit; 20-06-2007 at 03:01 PM.
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20-06-2007, 03:48 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified moth
Hi
it is a bit beat up isn't it 
The markings look like Small Ranunculus - Hecatera dysodea , but according to Skinner it's supposed to be rare!
neil |
20-06-2007, 04:13 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified moth
Neil...
Just looked up your suggestion.
You may well be right!
In which case, a tiny garden in Reading has turned up an uncommon (now) moth?!!
GREAT!!
Cheers
Doug. |
20-06-2007, 04:46 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified moth
It is Small Ranunculus, but the species has increased its range hugely since Skinner was published, and could now be found almost anywhere in southern England. It reached Leicestershire for the first time last year, and turned up in four gardens, including mine.
Andy |
20-06-2007, 04:51 PM
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Aw Andy...!
You've gone and dampened down my proverbial bonfire!
Thanks for the confirmation of ID anyway!
Cheers.
Doug. |
20-06-2007, 07:21 PM
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| | | Re: unidentified moth
Sorry!
I was very excited when I got mine last year, as at the time I only had the text in Skinner to go on, and I also thought it was going to be new for Leicestershire. Then I found out that there had actually been two already and that it had spread all over south-east England.
Still a very attractive moth though.
Andy |
20-06-2007, 08:01 PM
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Andy - why Ranunculus though?
Do they like Buttercups?
Or are they named after little frogs?
Doug. |
21-06-2007, 07:50 AM
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| | | Re: unidentified moth
No idea - sorry. There are three macro moths called Ranunculus - Large, Small and Feathered, which all look superficially similar, but aren't closely related to each other. None of them feed on buttercups, and I can't see any resemblence to frogs!
There's probably a reason for it, but it's likely to be obscure, knowing what the Victorian naturalists who named most of our moths were like!
Andy |
21-06-2007, 10:04 AM
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Ta.
Doug. |
21-06-2007, 07:53 PM
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like others when i had them in my old garden in Hayes 4 years ago i thought i was going mad with the text in skinner. after that first one i had them every year until i left although they did seem quite shy of coming to the moth light. i saw more in torchlight feeding on lavender and treucium than ever visited the sheet.
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