277 Cabera pusaria (Common White Wave)

70.277 Cabera pusaria (Common White Wave)

fw: 15-17mm; May-Sep; birches (Betula spp), alder (Alnus glutinosa), sallows (Salix spp); common throughout GB

Cabera pusaria (Common White Wave) §1 male

ID: Similar to C.exanthemata (Common Wave). C.pusaria has 3 fairly straight silver-grey cross-lines on forewing; in C.exanthemata these lines are brown, curved and often indistinct.

Variation
Dissection
Male genitalia
Female genitalia

§1 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 08/06/2008; male
§2 Thursley Common, Surrey; 16/06/2008; male
§3 New Forest, Hampshire; 29/05/2010; male
§4 Hollesley, Suffolk; 13/06/2011; male
§5 Mull; 01/07/2011
§6 Hanningfield, Essex; 19/06/2013; male; fw 15.2mm
§7 Conwy Mountain, Caernarvonshire; 18/07/2015; female; fw 14.8mm; to light
§8 New Forest, Hampshire; 20/06/2016; male; fw 16.0mm; to light
§9 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 18/06/2019; female; fw 14.4mm; to light
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§10 Pound Wood, Essex; 01/06/2020; male; fw 14.9mm
§11 Pound Wood, Essex; 01/06/2020; male; fw 13.8mm
§12 Pound Wood, Essex; 02/06/2021
§13 Kishorn, Ross & Cromarty; 21/06/2022; male