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stavrouchris

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• May 25, 2014

• #1

Hi All
Can anyone help with this moth please?
It was located in Cyprus along a rocky cost.
Is it a rare find?
Thanks

 

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Tri-Counties Birder

AKA The Portland Naturalist

• May 25, 2014

• #2

stavrouchris said:

Hi All
Can anyone help with this moth please?
It was located in Cyprus along a rocky cost.
Is it a rare find?
Thanks

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There is a dedicated sub-forum to moths and butterflies, so any further queries should be posted there.

But, your moth is a Striped Hawk-moth (Hyles livornica). Rare in the UK, but not in Cyprus, I would think.

 

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stavrouchris

Well-known member

• May 27, 2014

• #3

Many thanks for your reply
Chris

 

honeym

Well-known member

• May 27, 2014

• #4

Hi Chris

As has been said, it is Hyles livornica. A friend wrote to me a couple of days ago to say that there had been a big migration on Cyprus about a month ago with "thousands of V. cardui (Painted Lady butterflies) and Heliothis peltigera (Bordered Straw), hundreds of Macroglossum stellatarum and six Hyles livornica".
I also had one on my next to last night on Mallorca (last Friday), so the migration must still be happening.

Martin