73.121 Gortyna flavago (Frosted Orange)
ws: 32-42mm (MBGBI10), fw: 16-19mm (Waring & Townsend); Aug-Oct; various herbaceous plants; common in England, Wales and S&E Scotland.
Gortyna flavago (Frosted Orange) §4 male
ID: Antenna: male - ciliate, female - simple. Forewing orange with brown subbasal and subterminal fasciae, the latter bordered proximally by a brown postmedian crossline; veins lined brown, stigmata outlined brown. G.borelii (Fisher’s Estuarine Moth) is somewhat similar but larger (fw: 21-24mm), has a slightly scalloped forewing termen and whitish stigmata.
§1 Bowness on Solway, Cumbria; 05/09/2010; fw 16.9mm
§2 Foulness, Essex; 15/09/2012; female
§3 New Forest, Hampshire; 03/09/2013; male
§4 Foulness, Essex; 16/08/2014; male; fw 16.2mm
§5 Christon Bank, Northumberland; 15/09/2014
§6 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 17/09/2017; male; fw 15.6mm; to light
§7 Cripplesease, Cornwall; 19/08/2022
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 Foulness, Essex; 15/09/2012; female
§3 New Forest, Hampshire; 03/09/2013; male
§4 Foulness, Essex; 16/08/2014; male; fw 16.2mm
§5 Christon Bank, Northumberland; 15/09/2014
§6 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 17/09/2017; male; fw 15.6mm; to light
§7 Cripplesease, Cornwall; 19/08/2022
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 26/02/2016 (§1-5) | §6 added 31/12/2017 | §7 added 02/12/2022
