73.168 Lateroligia ophiogramma (Double Lobed)
fw: 13-16mm (Waring & Townsend), ws: 32-35mm (MBGBI10); Jun-Aug; reed canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea), reed sweet-grass (Glyceria maxima), pampas-grass (Cortaderia selloana); common in damp habitats in England, Wales and S.Scotland, local north to Aberdeenshire.
Synonym: Apamea ophiogramma (MBGBI10, Waring & Townsend)
Synonym: Apamea ophiogramma (MBGBI10, Waring & Townsend)
Lateroligia ophiogramma (Double Lobed) §1
ID: Forewing ground colour ranges from sandy-brown to reddish-brown; characterised by a large dark brown semicircular blotch with its base extending along most of the costa and which encloses a pale kidney mark towards its distal margin and an obscure concolorous oval mark; dark marks in terminal region at tornus and at ~1/3 from the costa; Postmedian line of double neural dots; antemdian line similar but obscured by the costal blotch. Antenna: male - densely, shortly ciliate, female - finely ciliate.
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§1 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 14/07/2008; fw 13.4mm
§2 Ham Fen, Kent; 15/07/2010; fw 13.8mm §3 Ham Fen, Kent; 15/07/2010; fw 14.7mm §4 Ham Fen, Kent; 15/07/2010; fw 14.5mm §5 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 22/07/2012; male; fw 14.4mm §6 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 10/07/2015; male; fw 13.7mm §7 Surlingham, Norfolk; 07/07/2018; male; fw 12.6mm §8 Surlingham, Norfolk; 07/07/2018; female; fw 13.2mm §9 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 26/07/2019 All images © Chris Lewis |
§10 Sutton Fen, Norfolk; 11/07/2022
§11 Sutton Fen, Norfolk; 11/07/2022 |
Page published 02/04/2016 (§1-6) | §7&8 added 15/05/2019 | §9 added 18/10/2019 | §10&11 added 18/12/2022
