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

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