Just a couple of days after adding Epinotia signatana to the garden list, and I now have another two interesting looking torts that will need formal det and are likely to be garden firsts.
One from 04/07/2017 is possibly Epinotia cinereana - a relatively new split having been previously considered as a form of Epinotia nisella. I've got a few garden records of E. nisella in July, although all from mid-July onwards and none this early in the month. Doubt I've seen the as-was E. nisella f. cinereana before - think all my records would be of the classically marked forms. Currently appears to be no formally confirmed records of E. cinereana from VC55.
Putative Epinotia cinereana - gen det pending
Post-script - confirmed (sadly!) as Epinotia nisella by gen. det.
The other one from last night is something else altogether. It's big (c24mm wingspan), and so worn that really I have no firm idea as to what it could be, although the apparent trace of a reticulated pattern with a couple of darker areas, along with the orangey/yellow head, are reminiscent of the recent adventive Gravitarmata margarotana. One that will need a get regardless!
A big bald tortrix
post-script - confirmed as Lozotaeniodes formosana by gen. det.
Otherwise, here's a few recent micros to fill the post up ....
Argyresthia brockeella
Tinea trinotella
Oegoconia quadripuncta - confirmed by gen. det.
Carcina quercana
Brachmia blandella
Caloptilia stigmatella
