73.272 BF2162 – Glaucous Shears – Noctuidae – Papestra biren
Glaucous Shears – Noctuidae – Hadeninae – Papestra biren – colour code •
STATUS – A resident that is confined to the gritstone moorland of North Derbyshire, where it is common and widely distributed.
ID POINTERS – A rather pointed and narrow-winged moth, with a marbled ash-grey forewing with large creamy-white and rounded kidney marks. Despite the name, it does not show the characteristic scissor-like marks of Shears
FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing May – June
IMAGES – Image by Steve Orridge
Glaucous Shears