73.026 Deltote uncula (Silver Hook)
fw: 11-12mm; May-Jul (Aug); grasses (Poaeceae), sedges (Carex spp); local in fens, marshes, boggy heathland and high moorland through most of GB.
Synonym: Eustrotia uncula (MBGBI10)
Synonym: Eustrotia uncula (MBGBI10)
Deltote uncula (Silver Hook) §1 male
ID: Forewing with a large central more or less triangular brown blotch, bordered cream-white. Costal margin of the brown blotch lined white in the basal portion, this white line projecting into the brown blotch as a spur or hook into which the cream white costal border extends; costa suffused grey. Terminal margin of the brown blotch lined white; terminal line brown. Dorsal margin diffuse. The cream colour may be more or less suffused pinkish (when fresh?).
Dissection
Male genitalia
§1 Kinlochleven, Argyll; 05/07/2011; male; fw 10.8mm
§2 New Forest, Hampshire; 02/06/2012; male; fw 11.5mm
§3 Mull; 21/06/2018; male; fw 10.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 New Forest, Hampshire; 02/06/2012; male; fw 11.5mm
§3 Mull; 21/06/2018; male; fw 10.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 31/03/2015 (§1-2) | §3 added 22/04/2019
