Moths of Northamptonshire

Trips 2008

Maidscross Hill, Suffolk

20th June 2008

Methods used: 10 MV and 2 actinic light traps
Lights operated: 21:30hrs to dawn
Temperature: 11°C ultimately dropping to 7 °C at dawn
Weather: Clear sky, light breeze, dry

B&F	Vernacular Name	Scientific Name	National Distribution	Approx. Numbers
1638	Fox Moth	Macrothylacia rubi	Common	10
1654	Figure of Eighty	Tethea ocularis octogesimea	Common	1
1667	Blotched Emerald	Comibaena bajularia	Local	1
1669	Common Emerald	Hemithea aestivaria	Common	1
1682	Blood-vein	Timandra comae	Common	1
1688	Tawny Wave	Scopula rubiginata	RDB3	2
1690	Small Blood-vein	Scopula imitaria	Common	1
1705	Dwarf Cream Wave	Idaea fuscovenosa	Local	4
1709	Satin Wave	Idaea subsericeata	Common	1
1711	Treble Brown Spot	Idaea trigeminata	Local	1
1713	Riband Wave	Idaea aversata	Common	5
1727	Silver-ground Carpet	Xanthorhoe montanata	Common	1
1728	Garden Carpet	Xanthorhoe fluctuata fluctuata	Common	1
1738	Common Carpet	Epirrhoe alternata	Common	12
1742	Yellow Shell	Camptogramma bilineata	Common	4
1752	Purple Bar	Cosmorhoe ocellata	Common	15
1758	Barred Straw	Eulithis pyraliata	Common	3
1765	Barred Yellow	Cidaria fulvata	Common	8
1768	Grey Pine Carpet	Thera obeliscata	Common	1
1776	Green Carpet	Colostygia pectinataria	Common	6
1782	Fern	Horisme tersata	Common	2
1791	Brown Scallop	Philereme vetulata	Local	1
1808	Sandy Carpet	Perizoma flavofasciata	Common	4
1817	Foxglove Pug	Eupithecia pulchellata	Common	1
1825	Lime-speck Pug	Eupithecia centaureata	Common	4
1830	Wormwood Pug	Eupithecia absinthiata	Common	1
1832	Currant Pug	Eupithecia assimilata	Common	1
1834	Common Pug	Eupithecia vulgata	Common	3
1837	Grey Pug	Eupithecia subfuscata	Common	6
1840	Shaded Pug	Eupithecia subumbrata	Local	2
1860	Green Pug	Pasiphila rectangulata	Common	3
1862	Double-striped Pug	Gymnoscelis rufifasciata	Common	4
1871	Grey Carpet	Lithostege griseata	RDB3	5
1876	Small Yellow Wave	Hydrelia flammeolaria	Common	1
1894	Latticed Heath	Chiasmia clathrata	Common	4
1902	Brown Silver-line	Petrophora chlorosata	Common	130
1906	Brimstone Moth	Opisthograptis luteolata	Common	10
1931	Peppered Moth	Biston betularia	Common	12
1937	Willow Beauty	Peribatodes rhomboidaria	Common	6
1941	Mottled Beauty	Alcis repandata	Common	6
1952	Common Heath	Ematurga atomaria	Common	1
1976	Privet Hawk-moth	Sphinx ligustri	Common	2
1980	Eyed Hawk-moth	Smerinthus ocellata	Common	2
1981	Poplar Hawk-moth	Laothoe populi	Common	2
1991	Elephant Hawk-moth	Deilephila elpenor	Common	15
1992	Small Elephant Hawk-moth	Deilephila porcellus	Local	40
1994	Buff-tip	Phalera bucephala	Common	2
2011	Pale Prominent	Pterostoma palpina	Common	2
2040	Four-dotted Footman	Cybosia mesomella	Local	4
2050	Common Footman	Eilema lurideola	Common	1
2059	Clouded Buff	Diacrisia sannio	Local	25
2060	White Ermine	Spilosoma lubricipeda	Common	9
2061	Buff Ermine	Spilosoma luteum	Common	15
2069	Cinnabar	Tyria jacobaeae	Common	80
2087	Turnip Moth	Agrotis segetum	Common	1
2088	Heart and Club	Agrotis clavis	Common	4
2089	Heart and Dart	Agrotis exclamationis	Common	70
2098	Flame	Axylia putris	Common	30
2102	Flame Shoulder	Ochropleura plecta	Common	35
2107	Large Yellow Underwing	Noctua pronuba	Common	15
2108	Lunar Yellow Underwing	Noctua orbona	Nb	1
2126	Setaceous Hebrew Character	Xestia c-nigrum	Common	15
2128	Double Square-spot	Xestia triangulum	Common	4
2147	Shears	Hada plebeja	Common	200
2152	White Colon	Sideridis albicolon	Nb	15
2157	Light Brocade	Lacanobia w-latinum	Local	6
2160	Bright-line Brown-eye	Lacanobia oleracea	Common	12
2163	Broom Moth	Melanchra pisi	Common	2
2164	Broad-barred White	Hecatera bicolorata	Common	23
2166	Campion	Hadena rivularis	Common	1
2173	Lychnis	Hadena bicruris	Common	4
2194	White-point	Mythimna albipuncta	Migrant	1
2198	Smoky Wainscot	Mythimna impura	Common	5
2199	Common Wainscot	Mythimna pallens	Common	1
2205	Shoulder-striped Wainscot	Mythimna comma	Common	40
2216	Shark	Cucullia umbratica	Common	2
2237	Grey Shoulder-knot	Lithophane ornitopus lactipennis	Common	2
2250	Dark Brocade	Blepharita adusta	Common	1
2278	Poplar Grey	Acronicta megacephala	Common	2
2301	Bird's Wing	Dypterygia scabriuscula	Local	10
2302	Brown Rustic	Rusina ferruginea	Common	12
2306	Angle Shades	Phlogophora meticulosa	Common	4
2321	Dark Arches	Apamea monoglypha	Common	13
2322	Light Arches	Apamea lithoxylaea	Common	2
2334	Rustic Shoulder-knot	Apamea sordens	Common	1
2337	Marbled Minor	Oligia strigilis	Common	5
2339	Tawny Marbled Minor	Oligia latruncula	Common	5
2340	Middle-barred Minor	Oligia fasciuncula	Common	2
2380	Treble Lines	Charanyca trigrammica	Common	13
2381	Uncertain	Hoplodrina alsines	Common	1
2382	Rustic	Hoplodrina blanda	Common	1
2384	Vine's Rustic	Hoplodrina ambigua	Local	2
2387	Mottled Rustic	Caradrina morpheus	Common	11
2389	Pale Mottled Willow	Paradrina clavipalpis	Common	2
2401	Marbled Clover	Heliothis viriplaca	RDB3	2
2410	Marbled White Spot	Protodeltote pygarga	Common	3
2434	Burnished Brass	Diachrysia chrysitis	Common	31
2450	Spectacle	Abrostola tripartita	Common	14
2474	Straw Dot	Rivula sericealis	Common	18
2477	Snout	Hypena proboscidalis	Common	20
2492	Small Fan-foot	Herminia grisealis	Common	5
		Species Total:	101