2019 July 29 afternoon

 

   We start this posting with two difficult ones.  First, a rather plain brown butterfly somewhat past its Best Before date, photographed by Gordon Hart in his Highlands garden.  We believe it is is a very late Western Brown Elfin  Incisalia (or Callophrys if we want this year’s label!) iroides.

 

Western Brown Elfin Incisalia iroides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Next, a beetle on the outside of a window of a double-decker bus, photographed from the inside by Samantha Hatfield. I didn’t think we’d be able to identify it, but thanks to Dave Holden who spotted it a a Banded Alder Borer.

Banded Alder Borer Rosario funebris (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Samantha Hatfield

 

 

   I’d like to say: Now for some easier ones – but I don’t know what we’d do without the invaluable help of Libby Avis to identify many of the moths appearing on this site.  Here is Jochen Möhr’s list for this morning, followed by a couple of photographs:

1 Amorbia cuneanum

1 Biston betularia

1 Callizzia amorata

1 Dichagyris variabilis

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

1 Eulithis xylina

2 Hesperumia latipennis

2 Hesperumia sulphuraria

1 Iridopsis emasculatum

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

11 Lophocampa argentata

3 Nemoria darwiniata

3 Panthea virginarius

8 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Pero mizon

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

1 Schizura ipomoeae

1 Sicya crocearia

1 Ypsolopha canariella

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Dichagyris variabilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Here’s another moth photographed recently by Jochen in Metchosin.  It is a beautiful moth, with text-book illustration of what are meant by the reniform, orbicular and claviform stigmata! In spite of that, it has not proved easy to identify!   We are grateful to Dr Lars Crabro for these comments:  It’s a slightly odd one. I suspect that it’s Euxoa rockburnei with reduced black scaling in the cell. Compare: http://pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu/browse/family-noctuidae/subfamily-noctuinae/tribe-noctuini/euxoa/euxoa-rockburnei/