03.003 Korscheltellus fusconebulosa (Map-winged Swift)
ws: 32-50mm (MBGBI1); fw: 14-26mm (Waring); Jun-Jul; local in moorland, rough pasture, heathland; lfp: roots of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and others
Synonyms: Pharmacis fusconebulosa (Wikipedia), Hepialus fusconebulosa (Waring & Townsend 1stEd, UK Moths etc)
See Grehan 2012 regarding placement in Korscheltellus
Synonyms: Pharmacis fusconebulosa (Wikipedia), Hepialus fusconebulosa (Waring & Townsend 1stEd, UK Moths etc)
See Grehan 2012 regarding placement in Korscheltellus
ID: Distinguished from other British Hepialidae by having a chequered forewing (and hindwing) ciliary fringe.
§1 Cyffdy Farm, Gwynedd; 21/06/2010; male; fw 14mm
§2 Cyffdy Farm, Gwynedd; 22/06/2010; male; fw 15mm §3 Cyffdy Farm, Gwynedd; 26/06/2010; male §4 Nethybridge, Inverness-shire; 10/07/2011; male; fw 18mm §5 Arnside, Cumbria; 25/07/2013; female §6 Seathwaite, Cumbria; 23/07/2016; female; fw 21.3mm §7 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 17/06/2017; male §8 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 18/06/2019; male §9 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 18/06/2019; male; fw 14.9mm All images © Chris Lewis |
§10 Loch Naver, Sutherland; 19/06/2021; male
§11 Loch Naver, Sutherland; 23/06/2021; female |
Page published January 2011 | §5 added 24/04/2014 | §6 added 03/07/2017 | §7 added 15/03/2017 | §8&9 added 23/01/2020 |
§10&11 added 13/10/2021
§10&11 added 13/10/2021