73.242 Orthosia (Orthosia) incerta (Clouded Drab)
fw: 16-20mm (Waring & Townsend), ws 32-42mm (MBGBI9); Mar-May; various broadleaved trees; common throughout GB
ID: Ground colour varies from light to dark grey, light to dark brown or reddish. Can generally be distinguished from its congeners by 3 dark smudgy marks immediately proximal to the subterminal line, one at its costal end, one at its dorsal end and one slightly costal to ½-way.
§1 Foulness, Essex; 15/03/2008; male
§2 Dovedale, Derbyshire; 03/04/2008 §3 Exmoor, Devon; 10/04/2009 §4 Foulness, Essex; 03/04/2010; male; fw 18.3mm §5 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 17/04/2011; male; fw 16.0mm §6 Bishps Stortford, Hertfordshire; 21/03/2012; male; fw 18.8mm §7 Dartmoor, Devon; 04/04/2014 §8 Dartmoor, Devon; 04/04/2014; male; fw 17.2mm §9 Dartmoor, Devon; 05/04/2014; male §10 Hockley, Essex; 23/03/2015; fw 17.0mm §11 New Forest; Hampshire; 26/03/2015; male; fw 18.7mm All images © Chris Lewis |
§12 Foulden Common, Norfolk; 11/04/2016; female; fw 17.2mm
§13 Foulden Common, Norfolk; 11/04/2016; male; fw 15.5mm §14 Foulden Common, Norfolk; 11/04/2016; male §15 Insh, Inverness-shire; 24/04/2016 §16 Struy, inverness-shire; 30/04/2016; female §17 Foulden Common, Norfolk; 11/04/2016; male; fw 16.3mm §18 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 19/04/2021; female; fw 19.0mm §19 Dunalastair Estate, Perthshire; 04/04/2022 §20 ??; male |
Page published 30/07/2016 (§1-16) | §17 added 02/04/2017 | §18 added 01/06/2021 | §19 added 07/04/2022 | §20 added 26/01/2023