030 Agonopterix nervosa

DEPRESSARIIDAE | Depressariinae | Depressariini

32.030 Agonopterix nervosa (Burnt-tip Buff)

ws: 16-22mm; Jul-Sep; broom (Cytisus scoparius), gorse (Ulex spp), dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria), petty whin (Genista anglica), tree lupin (Lupinus arboreus); common throughout GB

Agonopterix nervosa §1

ID: From key in MBGBI4.1 - forewing not dark purplish or crimson-brown. A: with at least one white dot in disc; without dark line from discal dot to tornus; apical half of terminal cilia pink to purplish-brown tornal half buff > A.nervosa or B: without white dot in disc; foretibia and tarsus not uniformly blackish; labial palp S3 not entirely buff; apical half of terminal cilia pink to purplish-brown tornal half buff > A.nervosa
The only Agonopterix with this colour pattern in the terminal cilia. (Also the only Agonopterix with the apex subfalcate).

Variation
Dissection
Male genitalia
Female genitalia

§1 Aberfoyle, Perthshire; 22/08/2008; fw 9.5mm
§2 Arne, Dorset; 04/07/2016; male; fw 9.9mm; to light
§3 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 10/08/2017; female; fw 8.4mm
§4 North Warren, Suffolk; 16/07/2017; male
§5 Dungeness, Kent; 12/07/2018; female; fw 8.5mm
§6 Dungeness, Kent; 13/07/2018
§7 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 03/08/2019
§8 Heydon, Cambridgeshire; 30/07/2024
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