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Help please

Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:21 pm
by eddie17
Can anybody hel;p with this one please.
Odds 10 001.jpg

Re: Help please

Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:55 pm
by JKT
Chloroclysta citrata/truncata. From that angle I can't tell which. The flight time could give a clue, but I'm not familiar with their times in GB.

Re: Help please

Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:39 pm
by Dave McCormick
Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) flies from August-October in UK where as Dark Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta citrata) flies from July-August. eddie17, when was the image taken?

Re: Help please

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:17 pm
by eddie17
Thanks for the help, really appreciated. Have attached some more if you have the time. Cheers Eddie B.

Re: Help please

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:55 pm
by eddie17
Thanks JKT.

Re: Help please

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:35 pm
by MikeWall
Flight-time is no guide - both fly from May into early November in two generations. Dark Marbled Carpet normally shows a more dentate (jagged) trailing edge to the median line, and often has extensive white patches; it is decidedly less common than Common Marbled in the south but often replaces it in northern England and Scotland. The moth in this picture is a classic Common Marbled by coloration.

Mike

Re: Help please

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:22 pm
by eddie17
Thanks for taking the time Mike. Eddie