Saturday, 6 October 2012

25th September 2012 - a storm and Beautiful Arches


Beautiful Arches/Őszi Porfírbagoly by Philip Sansum
Őszi Porfírbagoly    Mniotype satura     Beautiful Arches

My moth trap arrived in Hungary 9 days behind me and was set the next evening. Unfortunately this coincided with a great thunderstorm and torrential rain for most of the night. The rainshield did its job though and there were still about 40 moths of 20 species inside in the morning. These included two Beautiful Arches and several other autumn noctuids (oszibaglyok).

Tiliacea sulphurago
Tiliacea aurago
Allophyes oxyacanthae
Xanthia icteritia
Cymatophorina diluta
Conistra rubiginea
Eupsilia transversa
Lygephila craccae
Noctua comes

Noctua janthe
Tholera decimalis
Mythimna l-album
Mniotype satura
Amphipyra livida
Autographa gamma
Agrochola laevis


The Geometridae were represented by The Tissue (Triphosa dubitata), Feathered Thorn (Colotois pennaria), Portland Ribbon Wave (Idaea degeneraria) and a very smart Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata).

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