Moths and other critters in my Cypriot garden (9 Viewers)

[Ries]

Beautiful stuff, Andy. You moved to Cyprus? With all your books?!

 

[Andy Adcock]

From the trap last night, another Levantine Hawkmoth, a Lacewing Italochrysa italica and a Longhorn Beetle, yet to be identified.

 

[Andy Adcock]

I think this is Twin-spotted Wainscot Lenisa geminipuncta but, L. wiltsherie is here and is very similar.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Beautiful stuff, Andy. You moved to Cyprus? With all your books?!

Yes, we moved over, been here seven months now. Not moved all the books yetyet, just the basics so far. I have over a metric ton of them but we want to make sure my wifes career doesn't abruptly end before we sever out links with the UK completely.

 

[Andy Adcock]

A copule of retrospective ID's, from Lepiforum.

The first two are both Lymantria dispar the second is Bryophila maeonis.

 

[honeym]

Todays unknowns, this Noctua should be do'able, there are only four on the list?

The other two are Condica viscosa.

 

[Andy Adcock]

The other two are Condica viscosa.

Thanks Martin.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Last nights bits including three, Silver-striped Hawkmoths.

 

[Ries]

From the trap last night, another Levantine Hawkmoth, a Lacewing Italochrysa italica and a Longhorn Beetle, yet to be identified.

Really beautiful! Colors on the lacewing are crazy. Hawkmoths...gotta see if we got them here. I notice I'm really a diptera/coleoptera-liker, more than lepidoptera. Something with the alien build, I guess.

 

[Andy Adcock]

A shot of one of my egg boxes showing Treble-bar Aplocera plagiata, Four-spotted Tyta luctuosa, Zethes insularis and an unknown Cicada sp.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Very pleased to find this Oleander Hawkmoth inside the trap this morning, received wisdom is that they rarely enter the trap and most often are found sitting somewhere close.

Also, what I think is a Geometrician Prodotis stolida if anyone is able to confirm that for me I'd be gratefull.

 

[honeym]

Hi Andy - yes, that's stolida., now placed in Grammodes., although the whole genus and it's relatives are in need of revision.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Cheers Martin.

 

[Atropos]

Interestingly stolida is listed on the AFD as occuring in Western Australia but I can find no recent records and no mention post 1925

 

[Andy Adcock]

Love bumping in to stuff like this in the garden, presume this is an immature as it has no wings.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Some bits from two days ago.

Last I presume is one of the Chestnuts?

Three I at first thought was one of the Mottled Willows but not sure and no idea with the other two.

 

[Andy Adcock]

I haven't been trapping during the summer here, its hot, very dry and there is little activity at the trap, sprin and autumn seem to be better. So, here's my most interesting bits from last night.

252 Is my second time trapping the Cypriot endemic Ocnogyna clathrata cypriaca
264 needs no introduction to UK mothers, a lovely, fresh, Crimson Speckled which I get fairly regularly.
274 An unknown Tortrix sp.
285 Is I think a Purple Marbled Eublemma ostrina.
297 And 322 are possibly the same species but not sure.
311 I've had before, if I'm not wrong it's a Small Mottled Willow Spodoptera exigua.

Any help on my unknowns is always very welcome.

Edit: Just found another Ocnogyna clathrata cypriaca, my first Cypriot Feathered Thorn and another, unknown Noctuid 588 and 595, possibly Mythimna languida?

 

[Atropos]

Nice to have you back again Andy

 

[Atropos]

Some bits from two days ago.

Last I presume is one of the Chestnuts?

Three I at first thought was one of the Mottled Willows but not sure and no idea with the other two.

The One.jpeg from Sept has to be a Pseuodzarba of some description. I catch Pseudozarba orthopetes regularly at the moment

 

[Andy Adcock]

The One.jpeg from Sept has to be a Pseuodzarba of some description. I catch Pseudozarba orthopetes regularly at the moment

I solved it by accident, see post 11, one turned p in the UK.

October Moths 2022

Quite cool last night, 5.4C was the low, so only 2 moths. However, one was a rather smart Red Sword-grass, the first in the garden since 2016, and the other was an Angle Shades. Aviemore, VC95.

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