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Sunday, 23 August 2009

Near Huétor Tajar, Granada Province, Spain.

Moth Records for the 22nd August 2009.
15W Actinic on the terrace.
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9100 Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder).
Again I was using the 125MV trap, it was a warm night with the temperature not dropping below +20 and the sky was clear. There were a couple of new species for the year 10034 Leucania loreyi (The Cosmopolitan) and 9100 Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder) and a couple of new moths for the garden list. 
10034 Leucania loreyi (The Cosmopolitan).
8691 Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Pine Processionary) which is a moth that I have seen more as larva, forming there long nose to tail line and 9023 Eutelia adulatrix which is quite distinctive in the way that the wings and abdomen rest.
8691 Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Pine Processionary).

10335 Agrotis lata8211 Rhodometra sacaria (The Vestal), 9460 Spodoptera exigua (Small Mottled Willow), 9142 Eublemma parva (Small Marbled), 7725 Menophora japygiaria (Brassy Waved Umber), 8965 Tyta luctuosa (Four-spotted Moth), 9081 Ni Moth (Trichoplusia ni) and 6704 Antigastra catalaunalis were a few of the other species caught.
9023 Eutelia adulatrix.

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