2 species have been added following confirmation by dissection from trapping sessions in June.

3 weeks of trapping on St Mary's from 27th September produced no new moths for me. But I was provided with 3 species new for BritLep trapped by Mick & Will Scott at Longstone. These have been added to Brit Lep: the 4th British record of Dichomeris acuminatus, Diploseustis perieresalis. and Nycteola asiatica (Eastern Nycteoline). I also had the opportunity to photograph 2 species which I had only previously seen dead: Dialectica scalariella and Trichoplusia ni (Ni Moth).

5 species have been added from the Genital Determination Service

2 pug species have been added to site this month.

From June 21st to 27th I stayed at Franchises Lodge in the New Forest. This is a fairly newly acquired RSPB reserve in the northern part of the New Forest in Wiltshire. My son Ben had undertaken to use his sabbatical time to survey the invertebrates of this reserve and invited me along to "do" the moths. Prior to our arrival the reserve Lepidopteran list comprised just 231 species. In 6 nights of trapping and daytime observations we found ~425 species. These nights also produced a new high record for number of species in a single night - 238 (before gen dets which will add more). So far 3 new species have been added to BritLep as a result of this survey work.

Two species from the first half of May, mentioned as "to be confirmed" in the May Blog, have now been confirmed and added to BritLep. I would just add to my previous comment about Banded Pine Carpet probably breeding in Kent, that on my 3rd visit to Elhampark Wood I found 32 Banded Pine Carpets! 

On 5th June I made a daytime trip to Kent in a successful search for Black-veined Moth.

From 23rd to 30th May we had a very successful visit to the Cairngorms with trapping sessions at the Forest Lodge in Abernethy and on Tulloch Moor. I am grateful to the RSPB warden Richard Mason for giving permission  and to James DrageHubert (residential volunteer at Abernethy) for accompanying me and assisting with these sessions. Together with afternoon and evening netting (which was more productive on Tulloch Moor than I have known at any other site) these sessions produced 8 definitely identified species new to me, with some hope of more to come when Nematopogon pilella, Acleris maccana and Ruddy Highflyer are confirmed and Stigmella, Coleophora and Phyllonorycter species and several Gelechiids are identified.
The Ancylis tineana warrants special mention as we had targetted this species in an area of regenerating birch on Tulloch Moor, James having established that it had been found here previously. We set 4 125W mv Robinson traps and caught just one specimen - it was on the underside of the last egg box in the last trap we opened on the final morning of my visit.

The RES list has now been reconciled correcting several changes that had been overlooked with the publication of the 2nd edition of the checklist. This included the splitting of Ling Pug as a separate species.

1796 Species presented

The British Lepidoptera Checklist has been updated with the 1st amendment to the 2nd Edition of the RES Checklist and is available in the Home group of this website.

Male genital images pages have been added for families 69 to 74.