73.244 Orthosia (Monima) cerasi (Common Quaker)
fw: 13-17mm (Waring & Townsend), ws 34-40mm (MBGBI9); (Oct-)Mar-May; various broadleaved trees; common throughout GB.
Synonym: O.stabilis (MBGBI9)
Synonym: O.stabilis (MBGBI9)
Orthosia cerasi (Common Quaker) §10 male
ID: Forewing ground colour a variable shade of brown from pale sandy through reddish and greyish to blackish; apex rounded; pale subterminal line usually distinct; hindwing uniformly fuscous; antenna distinctly bipectinate in male, shortly bipectinate in female. Can usually be distinguished from its congeners by the large pale-outlined oval and kidney marks. O.populeti (Lead-coloured Drab) is very similar in forewing shape and markings but is grey rather than brown, the subterminal line is less distinct and may have some blackish marks on its proximal margin. Hoplodrina ambigua (Vine's Rustic) is grey with slightly smaller pale-outlined stigmata, a more pointed forewing apex a whitish hindwing and fasciculate antennae in the male, simple in the female.
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§1 Foulness, Essex; 21/04/2007; female
§2 Foulness, Essex; 15/03/2008 §3 Foulness, Essex; 03/04/2010; female; fw 15.0mm §4 Foulness, Essex; 03/04/2010; female; fw 16.5mm §5 Foulness, Essex; 03/04/2010; male; fw 15.4mm §6 Foulness, Essex; 03/04/2010; female; fw 16.5mm §7 Foulness, Essex; 03/04/2010; fw 15.1mm §8 Foulness, Essex; 12/03/2011 §9 Foulness, Essex; 12/03/2011; male §10 Foulness, Essex; 12/03/2011; male §11 Foulness, Essex; 16/04/2011; male; fw 16.6mm §12 Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire; 21/03/2012; male; fw 14.9mm §13 Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire; 21/03/2012; male All images © Chris Lewis |
§14 Dartmoor, Devon; 04/04/2014
§15 St Lawrence, Isle of Wight; 30/05/2014; female; fw 16.0mm §16 St Lawrence, Isle of Wight; 30/05/2014; male; fw 15.0mm §17 Hockley Woods, Essex; 23/03/2015; female §18 Foulden Common, Norfolk; 11/04/2016; female; fw 14.5mm §19 Foulness, Essex; 18/03/2017; male' fw 14.9mm §20 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 18/03/2022; male; fw 15.3mm §21 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 18/03/2022; male; fw 16.3mm §22 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 18/03/2022; female; fw 15.1mm §23 Bampton Grange, Cumbria; 18/03/2022; female; fw 16.5mm §24 Dunalastair, Perthshire; 01/04/2022 §25 Dunalastair, Perthshire; 04/04/2022; male §27 Bampton Grange, Cumbria 17/03/2024 |
Page published 31/07/2016 (§1-17) | §18 added 12/04/2017 | §19 added 01/04/2018 | §20-23 added 08/05/2022 | §24&25 added 02/06/2022 |
§26 added 24/03/2024
§26 added 24/03/2024
