35.085 Athrips mouffetella (Dotted Grey Groundling)
ws: 15-16mm; Jul-Sep; honeysuckle (Lonicera pericyclamen), fly honeysuckle (L.xylosteum), snowberry (Symphoricarpos rivularis); common in England & Wales
Athrips mouffetella §1 female
Generic features: Antenna without pecten; Forewing lanceolate/elongate, sometimes with erect scale-tufts; Hindwing same breadth as forewing, subtrapezoidal, tornus rounded, apex acute, variable degree of emargination of termen
Male genitalia: valva with long, slender, digitate costa, short inwardly curved sacculus, uncus with dense brush of setae
Female genitalia: signum near entrance to corpus bursae, a small plate with a transverse crease
The three British species are easily separable from each other.
Male genitalia: valva with long, slender, digitate costa, short inwardly curved sacculus, uncus with dense brush of setae
Female genitalia: signum near entrance to corpus bursae, a small plate with a transverse crease
The three British species are easily separable from each other.
Dissection
Male genitalia
Female genitalia
§1 Ham Fen, Kent; 16/07/2010; female; fw 7.7mm
§2 Winterton, Norfolk; 06/08/2015; female; fw 7.2mm; to light
§3 Sutton Fen, Norfolk; 17/07/2017; female; fw 7.5mm; to light
§4 Orlestone Forest, Kent; 11/07/2018; male; fw 7.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 Winterton, Norfolk; 06/08/2015; female; fw 7.2mm; to light
§3 Sutton Fen, Norfolk; 17/07/2017; female; fw 7.5mm; to light
§4 Orlestone Forest, Kent; 11/07/2018; male; fw 7.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published Nov 2011 (§1) | §2 added 13/01/2016 | §3 added 17/04/2018 | §4 added 16/05/2019
