Is it a Dingy Skipper? (1 Viewer)

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Richard

Well-known member

• Jun 24, 2003

• #1

Can anyone help ID what I think is a Dingy Skipper please?

Found on Birdsfoot trefoil but I cannot find a picture of the underside of one to compare. The edges of the underwing look like the edges of the upperwing of a Grizzled Skipper.

Many thanks.

 

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Stephen Dunstan

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• Jun 24, 2003

• #2

Richard,

I'm no expert but could it be one of the skipper like moths (Mother Shipton perhaps). Did it have club shaped ends to the antennae?

Stephen.

 

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davids

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• Jun 24, 2003

• #3

Richard

Could it be Common Heath, a day flying moth?


David

 

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Ken Noble

• Jun 24, 2003

• #4

Pretty confident it's not a dingy skipper which, according to my book has a rather uniform underside. It most resembles grizzled skipper but doesn't look quite right. The book says that 'certain day-flying moths look similar in flight'.

 

Binocularface

You've all got one...............!

• Jun 24, 2003

• #5

Hi Richard

I believe that you have a Laticed Heath (Moth). I am sorry but I do not have the scientific name to hand.

HTH
Tristan Reid

 

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Richard

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• Jun 24, 2003

• #6

Thanks to all of you.

I only managed three hasty shots, the one above is the clearest. Stephen asked about club end to the antennae. I can just about make out the antennae ends in another, less clear photo and I think the answer is no, I suppose that rules out a Skipper.

Armed with the suggested names I have had look at various pictures of the different moths on the net and have come to the conclusion it is a Latticed Heath Moth.

Thanks again...

Richard

 

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simondix

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• Jun 25, 2003

• #7

I agree it looks like a Latticed Heath to me.