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16-12-2008, 12:49 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wye Valley, Mid-Wales
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| | | Striped Moth ID Please
Hi
can anyone put a name to this for me, I'm struggling with this one. Found today on the underside of a piece of wood. Powys, mid-Wales. 
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Steve |
16-12-2008, 01:20 PM
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
I am at work and therefore without my field guide so can't be certain of my ID but take a look at Winter Moth as I think it is that.
John |
16-12-2008, 01:44 PM
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
Of the two Operophtera species this looks more like O.fagata |
16-12-2008, 02:17 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
it looks different from the specimen i had of O. brumata the other day, so i'd agree with DH |
16-12-2008, 02:17 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wye Valley, Mid-Wales
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
Thanks gents,
don't know why I didn't think of Winter moth, especially after Bruce's recent posts of pictures of them  . Oh well.
ATB
Steve |
16-12-2008, 02:22 PM
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
Hi
due to the wing shape and shade I would err towards O. brumata.
neil |
16-12-2008, 02:29 PM
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
Is O.brumata usually more brown and lacking the dotted veins on the wings? |
16-12-2008, 02:34 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: N.E. Derbyshire
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
Hi
O brumata is usually a darker shade which this seems to be and has more rounded wings, fagata looks more pointed or tapered.
neil |
16-12-2008, 02:36 PM
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
What about the vein colouration? The dots? this is usually more pronounced in fagata like this specimen? |
16-12-2008, 02:44 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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| | | re: Striped Moth ID Please
well i certainly couldn't see that on my O. brumata  | | | |
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