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GELECHIIDAE | Gelechiinae | Gelechiini
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35.085 Athrips mouffetella (Honeysuckle Grey)
ws: 15-16mm; Jul-Sep; honeysuckle (Lonicera pericyclamen), fly honeysuckle (L.xylosteum), snowberry (Symphoricarpos rivularis); common in England & Wales
Athrips mouffetella §6
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.
§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
§5 Pound Wood, Essex; 11/07/2019
§6 Pound Wood, Essex; 26/06/2020
§7 Pound Wood, Essex; 13/07/2020; male; fw 7.7mm
§8 ??; 2020; male
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
§5 Pound Wood, Essex; 11/07/2019
§6 Pound Wood, Essex; 26/06/2020
§7 Pound Wood, Essex; 13/07/2020; male; fw 7.7mm
§8 ??; 2020; male
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published Nov 2011 (§1) | §2 added 13/01/2016 | §3 added 17/04/2018 | §4 added 16/05/2019 | §5 added 24/02/2020 |
§6&7 added 28/01/2021 | §8 added 08/04/2021
§6&7 added 28/01/2021 | §8 added 08/04/2021
