INVERTEBRATE ALERT
This blog provides an informal forum for terrestrial invertebrate watchers to post recent sightings of interesting observations in the southern Vancouver Island region. Please send your sightings by email to Jeremy Tatum (tatumjb352@gmail.com). Be sure to include your name, phone number, the species name (common or scientific) of the invertebrate you saw, location, date, and number of individuals. If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please send it along. Click on the title above for an index of past sightings.The index is updated most days.

January 18

2018 January 18

 

   Jochen Moehr sends photographs of a moth and a caddisfly from Metchosin, and I am enormously indebted to Libby Avis for the identifications.  Libby writes: The moth is a Hypena, no question and I’m pretty sure it’s one of the darker Hypena californica – pronounced wedge at apex and I’ve also often seen them with a smaller offset dark dot between the orbicular spot and the trailing edge of the wing.

 

  The caddis fly is a limnephilid and it looks very much like a photo of Scott Gilmore’s on BG which was ID’d as Glyphopsyche irrorata. If you go into Bug Guide: www.bugguide.net and type in the number 1043396 in the search box in the top right, you’ll call it up. Have also attached a photo of one of ours which was confirmed by DNA, but Jochen’s is a bit darker and I think looks closer to Scott’s.

 


Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Caddisfly Glyphopsyche irrorata (Tri.: Limnephilidae)

 Jochen Moehr

 

Caddisfly Glyphopsyche irrorata (Tri.: Limnephilidae) Libby Avis