2018 November 21

 

   Victoria West sends a photograph of Emmelina monodactyla.  This is one of those pterophorid moths that we, as well as enthusiasts on the Sussex butterfly website, have independently noticed closely resembles the pre-WWI German monoplane the Rumpler Taube.   See

 https://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings/   for 19 and 20 November.  The larval foodplant of this species is the flowers of Calystegia.

 

Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Victoria West