2019 November 23

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

4 Erannis vancouverensis

 

   Jochen sends pictures of his four Erannis. Jeremy Tatum writes:  Long-time viewers of this site will know that I have long been of the opinion that the so-called “Erannis vancouverensis” is in fact the European Erannis defoliaria.  I have taken the liberty of taking a photograph of an Erannis defoliaria from a British site, and I show it here with Jochen’s local photographs.  See if you can “spot the difference”.  I certainly can’t.  The caterpillars, too, are, to my eyes, inseparable.

 

Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Erannis defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Nick Greatorex-Davies

 

Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr