Clouded Drab - colour variations
Edit: Acleris hastiana
Anyone care to identify this one? Much appreciated if you can! It looks to me like a very battered Garden Rose Tortrix Acleris variegana: the field guide has mid June to early November as the flight period, but has been recorded in May. Could this one have managed to overwinter, perhaps? Or have I simply misidentified it (as usual)! The moth is about 12mm in length.
I think it's one of the more unusual forms of Acleris hastiana - try doing a Google images search; there are some photos of similar specimens.
ReplyDeleteA. variegana is shorter in the wing, i.e. squarer in outline.
George
Excellent! I would never have found that. Most grateful George.
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