Moth ID please Epping Forest. (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

Can’t find this seemingly Noctuid in Lewingtons?

Cheers

 

[aeshna5]

Not surprised you couldn't find it in the noctuids. It's not even a macro- so looking in the wrong book! It's a large micro- Double-striped Tabby, Hypsopygia glaucinalis.

 

[KenM]

Get ye’r laughing teeth round this one A 🤣
Has left me most disconsolate.😩
👍

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Pale Mottled Willow

 

[KenM]

Pale Mottled Willow

You don’t read tea leaves as well JW…do you, what’s the clincher? 👍

 

[JWN Andrewes]

It's tricky, but general colour palette, hint of ragged dark grey terminal and rusty subterminal bands along the wing tips, and rusty kidney stigmata.

 

[KenM]

It's tricky, but general colour palette, hint of ragged dark grey terminal and rusty subterminal bands along the wing tips, and rusty kidney stigmata.

I’ll happily go along with that JW, albeit the only comment I would make is…that I do get PMW’s not infrequently and they’re normally well marked to the point that I recognise them almost immediately.
Accepted that some might come as challenging as this, I’ll have to raise my game….Cheers👍