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Mallorcan moths (1 Viewer)
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blackcountry mon
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Many thanks for the input David, it is much appreciated
Terry
Terry
Andy Atkinson
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Number one looks good for Tamarisk Peacock Terry.
honeym
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I don't know what just happened but my reply just disappeared!
As Dave has said, I trap regularly on Mallorca and have been involved for some years with a biodiversity monitoring project in s'Albufera. I also trap less frequently on all the other islands (including Sa Dragonera and Cabrera).
Your moths are:
#1 as Andy has said - Chiasmia aestimaria (the Tamarix Peacock when it reached the UK).
#2 Sclerocona acutellus.
#3 as Dave said, Antigastra catalaunalis.
#4 Thysanoplusia daubei.
I maintain a list of all Balearic Island records so I would be grateful if I could also include yours. If that's OK with you I would need the locality, date and your name.
Were these all the moths you saw?
Best wishes
Martin
As Dave has said, I trap regularly on Mallorca and have been involved for some years with a biodiversity monitoring project in s'Albufera. I also trap less frequently on all the other islands (including Sa Dragonera and Cabrera).
Your moths are:
#1 as Andy has said - Chiasmia aestimaria (the Tamarix Peacock when it reached the UK).
#2 Sclerocona acutellus.
#3 as Dave said, Antigastra catalaunalis.
#4 Thysanoplusia daubei.
I maintain a list of all Balearic Island records so I would be grateful if I could also include yours. If that's OK with you I would need the locality, date and your name.
Were these all the moths you saw?
Best wishes
Martin
blackcountry mon
Well-known member
Hi Martin
Many thanks for the information. Numbers 1,2 and 4 were on the stairwell wall of the Lagotel Hotel, Playa de Muro adjacent to s'Albufera. 1 and 2 were seen on September 13th and 4 was seen on the 14th. Number 3 was in a rough area between the Circuit de Llac road and the lake by the Lagotel Hotel on September 12th also seen at the same time and in the same area area was a Oncocera semirubella.
Other moths seen were a Dark Sword-grass which was on the wall of our apartment in the Lagotel on September 7th, a Crimson Speckled which was on an area of rough ground between the Circuit de Llac and s'Albufera on September 11th and 4 Humming-bird Hawk Moths were in the gardens of the Lagotel on the same date.
On September 12th there were 3 Humming-bird Hawk Moths in the Lagotel gardens and 5 in the same area on the 13th. On September 14th there were two Vestals in the rough area between the Circuir de LLac and the Lagotel lake and on the same date a walk from the English Bridge near the entrance to s'Albufera along the canal bank to the sea gave me 5 Vestals and a single Palpita vitrealis.
Hope that these help with your records and you can obviously use them
Terry Evans
Many thanks for the information. Numbers 1,2 and 4 were on the stairwell wall of the Lagotel Hotel, Playa de Muro adjacent to s'Albufera. 1 and 2 were seen on September 13th and 4 was seen on the 14th. Number 3 was in a rough area between the Circuit de Llac road and the lake by the Lagotel Hotel on September 12th also seen at the same time and in the same area area was a Oncocera semirubella.
Other moths seen were a Dark Sword-grass which was on the wall of our apartment in the Lagotel on September 7th, a Crimson Speckled which was on an area of rough ground between the Circuit de Llac and s'Albufera on September 11th and 4 Humming-bird Hawk Moths were in the gardens of the Lagotel on the same date.
On September 12th there were 3 Humming-bird Hawk Moths in the Lagotel gardens and 5 in the same area on the 13th. On September 14th there were two Vestals in the rough area between the Circuir de LLac and the Lagotel lake and on the same date a walk from the English Bridge near the entrance to s'Albufera along the canal bank to the sea gave me 5 Vestals and a single Palpita vitrealis.
Hope that these help with your records and you can obviously use them
Terry Evans
blackcountry mon
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blackcountry mon
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Many thanks Martin, the Antigastra catalaunalis was in the gardens of the Lagotel on September 11th and the Spodoptera cilium was on the entrance floor of the Lagotel on September 13th.
Terry
Terry
honeym
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Hi Cristina
This is Eutelia adulatrix. It has a rather unusual resting posture and quite amazing colour pattern. It is the only European representative of what is otherwise a fairly worldwide, mainly tropical genus. The larva feeds mainly on Pistacia species (Anacardiaceae).
Best wishes
Martin
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Andy Adcock
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Figure of Eighty for the first.
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honeym
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Hi Christina
As Andy has said, the first is [in the UK] a Figure of Eighty - from the marks in the central band of the forewing. It's scientific name is Tethea ocularis (Linnaeus, 1767). The second is Idaea ochrata (Scopoli, 1763). I have few records of the first species, and only from Mallorca. The second is reasonably common in the Balearics and can often be seen by day.
Best wishes
Martin
As Andy has said, the first is [in the UK] a Figure of Eighty - from the marks in the central band of the forewing. It's scientific name is Tethea ocularis (Linnaeus, 1767). The second is Idaea ochrata (Scopoli, 1763). I have few records of the first species, and only from Mallorca. The second is reasonably common in the Balearics and can often be seen by day.
Best wishes
Martin
LaGola
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Thank you very much Andy and Martin!