Moths and other critters in my Cypriot garden (3 Viewers)

[Andy Adcock]

Thats not a Silver-striped Hawk looks like a worn Hippotion celerio to me

Now I'm confused, the scientific name is included with the image?

Silver-striped Hawk-moth | UKmoths

www.ukmoths.org.uk

 

[Atropos]

Sorry Andy the downside of common names and me being lazy. The photo you posted on 23rd May (1684821923320.jpg) and called Silver-striped Hawkmoth is Hyles lineata and having checked in a UK reference is called Striped Hawkmoth (I have seen it called Silver-striped Hawkmoth). Hippotion celerio which was the moth you have just posted I know of as Vine Hawkmoth but the same UK reference does indeed call it Silver-striped Hawkmoth. I was trying to point out that the two you have posted as Silver-striped Hawkmoth are in fact different species! Sorry for the confusion

 

[Andy Adcock]

Sorry Andy the downside of common names and me being lazy. The photo you posted on 23rd May (1684821923320.jpg) and called Silver-striped Hawkmoth is Hyles lineata and having checked in a UK reference is called Striped Hawkmoth (I have seen it called Silver-striped Hawkmoth). Hippotion celerio which was the moth you have just posted I know of as Vine Hawkmoth but the same UK reference does indeed call it Silver-striped Hawkmoth. I was trying to point out that the two you have posted as Silver-striped Hawkmoth are in fact different species! Sorry for the confusion

The two names confuse me all the time!

 

[Atropos]

The two names confuse me all the time!

and thats why I only use scientific binomals

 

[Andy Adcock]

Best of the meagre catch this week so far.

The last image is from June, thanks to John East for a belated ID.

 

[Andy Adcock]

A few unknowns here are what I presume to be two different species of Antlion.

Very few Noctuids being caught, a single each of Bordered and Eastern Bordered Straw were the only ones.

 

[Andy Adcock]

I've named what I know, the rest are a mystery for now.

 

[Atropos]

No idea what it is but 0124 is stunning, could it be something in Eublemma or an allied genera?

 

[aeshna5]

Spider looks like Thomisus onustus or sibling species.

 

[Andy Adcock]

No idea what it is but 0124 is stunning, could it be something in Eublemma or an allied genera?

I thought Eublemma too but Lepiforum have ID'd it as Tegostoma baphialis.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Spider looks like Thomisus onustus or sibling species.

Yes, one of the types I usually find on flower heads.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Selidosema is a first for me and a Cyprus endemic.

The wasp is large, perhaps a hunter of larger spiders? I get them in my trap but can never catch one for a pic, this wwas dead in the pool.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Last night I got a couple of things that I'm yet to identify, a Geometrid and a micro, also, another Longhorn beetle and again, yet to be ID'd.

I also caught my first, Cyprus record of one of my favourite moths, a Buff-tip.

Edit: John East has very kindly provided me with a list of Cypriot macro moths and I couldn't find Buff-tip on the list. It turns out that this is a distinct species Phalera bucephaloides

 

[Andy Adcock]

More of my best bits.

I also got my first Jersey Tiger but it escaped as I tried to photograph it, grrrrrrr.

 

[renopaul]

Hi Andy - in your post of 13/7 you've got Palpita vitrealis down as Cydalima perspectalis - slip of the keyboard I reckon!
Cheers
Paul

 

[Andy Adcock]

Hi Andy - in your post of 13/7 you've got Palpita vitrealis down as Cydalima perspectalis - slip of the keyboard I reckon!
Cheers
Paul

A Mis-ID Paul, thought it was the white form of Box Tree Moth, thank you.

 

[Andy Adcock]

A couple of belated ID's from earlier post.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Last nights highlights including my first Black Collar of which, there are several, UK records.

A giant Ant species, probably the biggest I've ever seen, at least an inch.

 

[honeym]

Last nights best bits.

I'd say that your H. nubigera (June 26) is actually H. armigera.

 

[Andy Adcock]

I'd say that your H. nubigera (June 26) is actually H. armigera.

Hi Martin and thanks for the input, I've missed you!