Borkhausenia fuscescens?

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bobhelencoan
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Borkhausenia fuscescens?

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Could the Bryotropha? be Borkhausenia fuscescens??
Is the unknown micro also Crassa unitella??
Bob & Helen



We had a good count last weekend with 81 species Friday night. Two nice new ones for us were lattieced heath and variegated golden tortrix. We also had the usual bunch of micros that has left us puzzling.
Having miss identified the scoparia ambigualis last week we hope we now have correctly found a Eudonia mercurella. A close relative that look different again we think is Eudonia lacustrata.
Last year we think we mixed up Notocelia trimaculata and missed Notocelia rosaecolana. We think we have now found Notocelia rosaecolana.
Three others we are not sue about but have guessed at two of them.
All comments to help ID the micros much appreciated. Bob & Helen
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Eudonia mercurella?
Eudonia mercurella?
Eudonia lacustrata ?
Eudonia lacustrata ?
Notacelia rosaecolana?
Notacelia rosaecolana?
Bryotropa senectella?
Bryotropa senectella?
Crassa unitella ?
Crassa unitella ?
Micro unknown
Micro unknown
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stevehind
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Re: micros for ID.

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Hi Bob & Helen

Your Eudonia lacustrata is Scoparia ambigualis
Think your Notacelia rosaecolana is N. trimaculana
I would have said your Bryotropa senectella was a Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella
Agree Crassa unitella

Regards
Steve
johnK
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Re: micros for ID.

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Agree with your Eudonia mercurella,
John
bobhelencoan
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Re: micros for ID.

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Thanks John, At least we got one right.
We have searched the forum for previous posts on the Eudonia lacustrata and the Notocelia moths and have downloaded some useful information. We should do that more often when puzzling over an ID.
Steve suggests the Bryotropha moth is actually the brown house moth. We had one in the trap with this but it was much bigger. This moth's wing length is only 5-6mm so we are not sure it still fits with brown house moth ID. Bob & Helen
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update following dissections

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The Bryotropha was indeed the brown house moth (male). The final photo of an unknown turned out to be Tinea pellionella female, the case bearing clothes moth. An other rather unwelcome addition to our species list!
In addition to all our other specimens Steve also looked at the green moth we had found in Spain and bred through from eggs it laid. It was a Phaiogramma etruscaria, we had thought it might be a moth that does occassionally appear down south as a migrant but apparently not.

We are very lucky that Steve has been prepared to spend time on so many moths for us but we hope it has produced some interesting results for him too. Bob & Helen
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Re: Borkhausenia fuscescens?

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