Small Dotted Buff - Retrospective Id?

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MPStanyer
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Small Dotted Buff - Retrospective Id?

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Please can anyone confirm my identification of the below two images as female Small Dotted Buff?

After some deliberation & spending a lot of time looking at images of Cloaked Minor I came to the conclusion that this is a female Small Dotted Buff. I reviewed some of my older images of unidentified moths and found the second image below which I believed is also a Small Dotted Buff. Apologies for the poor quality of the second image - which is a reflection of the equipment I was using 10 years ago!
female Small Dotted Buff, Marple 6th Aug 2020
female Small Dotted Buff, Marple 6th Aug 2020
Presumed female Small Dotted Buff, Marple 10th July 2010
Presumed female Small Dotted Buff, Marple 10th July 2010
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Re: Small Dotted Buff - Retrospective Id?

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I would have recorded the 2020 individual as Cloaked Minor. I can't make out enough detail on the earlier specimen.
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Steve
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Re: Small Dotted Buff - Retrospective Id?

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Thnaks Steve - agree the old one is a pretty poor image.
Cheers
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