73.211 Enargia paleacea (Angle-striped Sallow)
fw: 17-20mm (Waring & Townsend), ws: 40-60mm (MBGBI10); Aug-Sep; silver/downy birch (Betula pendula/pubescens); NS-B in birchwoods and heath with birch in N.Scotland and in a belt from Wales through the Midlands to Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, occasional migrant elsewhere.
Formerly placed in Amphipyrinae.
Formerly placed in Amphipyrinae.
Enargia paleacea (Angle-striped Sallow) §1 male
ID: Forewing ground colour varies from yellow to orange and in strength of markings. Hindwing yellowish. Well-marked specimens show an angled antemedian line, aan angled, smudgy median line interrupted by the kidney mark, a more obtusely angled postmedian line and a dark spot in the dorsal part of the kidney mark. Cosmia trapezina (Dun-bar) can be a similar colour and also shows the dark spot in the kidney mark but its ante-median line is straight. Poorly marked specimens may resemble Xanthia icteritia (Sallow) which is smaller (fw 14-17mm) and has a paler hindwing.
§1 Loch Rannoch, Perthshire; 24/08/2008; male; fw 19.5mm
§2 Loch Rannoch, Perthshire; 26/08/2008
§3 Muir of Dinnet, Aberdeenshire; 22/10/2019; male; fw 14.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
§2 Loch Rannoch, Perthshire; 26/08/2008
§3 Muir of Dinnet, Aberdeenshire; 22/10/2019; male; fw 14.4mm
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 08/06/2016 (§1-2) | §3 added 18/12/2019
