28.022 Alabonia geoffrella (Hedge Beauty)
ws: 18-21mm; May-Jun, mostly seen at sunrise and in early morning sun; bark of dead wood; common in woodland troughout England and Wales
Alabonia geoffrella §1 male
Generic features: Head moderately rough-scaled on vertex, eyelashed; Antenna 3/4 length of fw; fasciculate-ciliate in male, simple in female; scape with pecten; Very long labial palps, S2 3x longer than S3; S2 with rough forward directed scales above and below, smooth laterally, straight;
S3 gently recurved; Fw V7 to costa; Hw V4&3 connate
S3 gently recurved; Fw V7 to costa; Hw V4&3 connate
§1 Bookham Common, Surrey; 06/05/2011; male; fw 8.3mm
§2 Orlestone Forest, Kent; 04/06/2019; male
§3 Pound Wood, Essex; 22/05/2019; male; fw 8.3mm
§4 Pound Wood, Essex; 01/06/2020; male
§5 Covert Woods, Kent; 09/06/2022; female; fw 7.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 Orlestone Forest, Kent; 04/06/2019; male
§3 Pound Wood, Essex; 22/05/2019; male; fw 8.3mm
§4 Pound Wood, Essex; 01/06/2020; male
§5 Covert Woods, Kent; 09/06/2022; female; fw 7.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 20/11/2011 (§1) | §2 added 01/01/2020 | §3 added 11/02/2020 | §4 added 20/01/2021 | §5 added 30/09/2022
