189 Leptoligia lota (Red-line Quaker)

73.189 Leptoligia lota (Red-line Quaker)

fw: 15-18mm (Waring & Townsend), ws: 33-39mm (MBGBI10); Sep-Nov; willows (Salix spp); common throughout GB
Synonym: Agrochola (Leptoligia) lota (RES Checklist, 2013)

Leptoligia lota (Red-line Quaker) §1 female

ID: Forewing ground colour pale to dark grey, sometimes suffused reddish; kidney mark black in dorsal half; subterminal line red, edged with yellow on its distal side, fairly straight apart from a subcostal notch. A.macilenta (Yellow-line Quaker) is similarly marked but has a pale brown or yellowish-brown ground colour.

Variation
Dissection
Male genitalia
Female genitalia

§1 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 18/10/2007; female; fw 16.9mm
§2 Foulness, Essex; 18/10/2008; male; fw 17.2mm
§3 Foulness, Essex; 24/10/2009; male; fw 15.3mm
§4 St Agnes, Isles of Scilly; 16/10/2010; male; fw 15.0mm
§5 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 02/10/2011; male
§6 Titchwell, Norfolk; 21/10/2012
§7 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 12/10/2014; male
§8 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 12/10/2014; male
§9 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 12/10/2014; male
All images © Chris Lewis

§10 Foulness, Essex; 03/10/2015; female
§11 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 05/10/2016; male
§12 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 08/10/2018; male; fw 13.5mm
§13 St Marys, Isles of Scilly; 15/10/2021

Page published 30/05/2016 (§1-10) | §11 added 24/06/2017 | §12 added 01/12/2018 | §13 added 07/01/2022