70.249 Lycia lapponaria (Rannoch Brindled Beauty)
fw: ♂14-16mm (Waring & Townsend), ♀ flightless, with vestigial wings; Mar-May; bog-myrtle (Myrica gale), bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); NS-A acid moorland and heath in central Scottish highlands.
Lycia lapponaria (Rannoch Brindled Beauty) §1 male
ID: ♂Forewings pale, translucent; with a fairly distinct blackish median fascia which is divided by an incursion of ground colour in its costal ⅓; less well-marked dark subbasal and subterminal fasciae; orange scales along the costa proximal to the median fascia; a midline orange streak on the dorsum of the thorax and a row of orange spots on the dorsum of the abdomen; antenna bipectinate. ♀ Black with a midline orange streak on the dorsum of the thorax and a row of orange spots on the dorsum of the abdomen as in the ♂, and a scattering of orange scales on the vestigial wings and in bands around the abdominal segments; covered in whitish furry scales; antenna shortly ciliate. Lycia zonaria (Belted Beauty) has a different habitat and has bands of orange at the distal margins of the dorsal surface of the abdominal segments..
§1 Struan, Perthshire; 01/04/2022; male; 15.7mm
§2 Struan, Perthshire; 01/04/2022; female: 4.8mm
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§2 Struan, Perthshire; 01/04/2022; female: 4.8mm
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 03/04/2022 (§1&2)
