28.003 Schiffermuelleria (Schiffermuellerina) grandis (Silver-streaked Beauty)
ws: 13-17mm; May-Jun; under bark of oak (Quercus), beech (Fagus sylvatica), ivy (Hedera helix); pRDB, according to MBGBI4.1 and Hants Moths in decline and now confined to ancient woodland in Devon, Somerset and Worcestershire and not recorded in the New Forest since 1934 - however I found this specimen in the New Forest, Hampshire in 2010
Schiffermuelleria grandis §1 male
Generic features: Head with appressed scales on frons, rough-scaled over vertex, some tufting over eye; Antenna 2/3-3/4 fw length; pecten absent; ciliate in male, simple in female; Labial palp moderate, recurved; apex level with or above eye; S2 with forward directed moderately appressed scales; S3 thin, pointed =length to S2; Fw lanceolate; V7 unbranched from cell to costa; Hw elongate; V4&3 connate.
ID: to follow
ID: to follow
§1 New Forest, Hampshire; 30/05/2010; male; fw 7.2mm
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 08/11/2011 | Genus name changed from Schiffermuellerina 10/03/2014
