73.086 Pseudeustrotia candidula (Shining Marbled)
ws: ~22mm (UKMoths), 22-25mm (HantsMoths); rare migrant first recorded in Britain 2006, 13 British records to end 2018; Jun-Oct
Pseudeustrotia candidula (Shining Marbled) §1 female
ID: Distinctively marked. Silvery-white ground colour; fine dark dentate-sinuate crosslines - subbasal edged white distally, antemedian edged white proximally, postmedian edged white distally; dashed terminal line; partial fasciae, marbled black, grey and brown with some white - subbasal, interrupted by ground colour in middle to give costal and dorsal spots between subbasal and antemedian lines and postmedian giving a large costal blotch mostly proximal to the postmedian line but extending distal to the line near the costa; a diffuse grey dorsal blotch bordering the distal margin of the subbasal line and fading towards the postmedian line; 2 diffuse grey fasciate lines in the subterminal region. The large costal blotch obscures a kidney mark with a blackish outline and a whitish area in its costal third; possibly blackish spots at the proximal border of the costal blotch are the oval mark.
DIssection
Female genitalia
§1 Dungeness, Kent; 23/07/2017; female; fw 10.6mm; to light (trapped by Ben); 10th British Record (?)
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 29/07/2017 (§1) | dissection images added 01/10/2017
