2023 April 9

   Val George sends photographs from his Oak Bay home of two geometrid moths that are notoriously difficult to identify.   The first is one of Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata.  Is the mid-costal patch rectangular (ravocostaliata)
or triangular (nevadata)?   The second is a species of Drepanulatrix – possibly secundaria or possibly monicaria.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I don’t have the courage to label either of these moths with confident identifications at species
level.  They are already notoriously difficult – I would just muddy the waters if I were to label them as certain identifications and get them wrong.

Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata   (Lep.: Geometridae)   Val George

Drepanulatrix sp.  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Val George