73.256 Anarta melanopa (Broad-bordered White Underwing)
fw: 11-13mm; May-Jun, diurnal; crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), cowberry/bilberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea/myrtillus), bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp); RDB in high moorland usually >600m in Scottish highlands
Anarta melanopa (Broad-bordered White Underwing) §1 male
ID: Forewing grey with variable black markings including a small oval and larger kidney marks, antemedian and postmedian lines often broadened in their dorsal 1/3-1/2; white and black chequered cilia; hindwing with a broad brown-black terminal border, paler grey-brown base and dorsum, central-costal white area containing a small black crescent mark.
Dissection
Male genitalia
§1 A'Chailleach, Cairngorms; 29/05/2015; netted by day at ~900m
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 06/07/2015 (§1)
