73.092 Caradrina (Caradrina) morpheus (Mottled Rustic)
fw: 13-16mm (Waring & Townsend), ws: 28-35mm (MBGBI10)*; Jun-Aug, sometimes bivoltine in south Oct; various herbaceous plants; common in England and lowland Wales, local in lowland Scotland.
* I have had specimens with fw lengths down to 11.4mm
* I have had specimens with fw lengths down to 11.4mm
ID: Characterised by dark 'blurred' oval and kidney marks with no pale edging; otherwise similar to Hoplodrina octogenaria/blanda/ambigua (Uncertain / Rustic / Vine’s Rustic).
§1 Foulness, Essex; 24/06/2007
§2 Foulness, Essex; 24/06/2007 §3 Foulness, Essex; 01/07/2007 §4 Foulness, Essex; 01/06/2008; fw 15.0mm §5 Foulness, Essex; 01/06/2008; fw 14.7mm §6 Foulness, Essex; 08/06/2008; fw 15.6mm §7 Foulness, Essex; 08/06/2008 §8 Foulness, Essex; 22/06/2008 §9 Foulness, Essex; 13/07/2008; fw 14.8mm §10 Foulness, Essex; 13/06/2010 All images © Chris Lewis |
§11 Foulness, Essex; 13/06/2010; male
§12 Foulness, Essex; 27/06/2010; fw 14.3mm §13 Foulness, Essex; 08/05/2011; male; fw 15.1mm §14 Westcliff-on-sea, Essex; 14/06/2011 §15 Foulness, Essex; 10/06/2012 §16 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 18/06/2012; male §17 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 27/07/2012; male §18 St Lawrence, Isle of Wight; 03/06/2014; male; fw 13.8mm §19 Foulness, Essex; 02/06/2018; male; fw 13.7mm §20 Foulness, Essex; 20/06/2020; female; fw 11.4mm! §21 Foulness, Essex; 10/07/2021 |
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