It's not often I can't identify a British Lepidoteran in reasonable condition once I have it under my microscope.
I originally put this post out under the heading 'HELP". This moth was trapped on St Marys, IOS on 03/10/2013, With a little help from my son, Ben, and birdforum, the answer came within a few hours from Martin Honey and (I think independently) soon after from Dave Grundy - who has also obtained obtained a specimen on St Agnes this October. It is Helcystogramma triannulella - the first British record of this species. Click on the image for more details.
I originally put this post out under the heading 'HELP". This moth was trapped on St Marys, IOS on 03/10/2013, With a little help from my son, Ben, and birdforum, the answer came within a few hours from Martin Honey and (I think independently) soon after from Dave Grundy - who has also obtained obtained a specimen on St Agnes this October. It is Helcystogramma triannulella - the first British record of this species. Click on the image for more details.
Helcystogramma triannulella © Chris Lewis
I've added a link to this species to the October 2013 posting, just for completeness. When I originally wrote that post it would have been obvious that the species I was most pleased to find was Crimson Speckled - that certainly isn't the case now!
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