73.263 BF2157 – Light Brocade – Noctuidae – Lacanobia w-latinum
Light Brocade – Noctuidae – Hadeninae – Lacanobia w-latinum – colour code •
STATUS – A new species for Derbyshire in 2019. Current status unsure, as no previous records published prior to 2018. The latest specimen was trapped in a Belper garden on 24th May 2023. It appears the first county record may well have been one trapped in Sandiacre on 25th May 2019. A further one trapped at Breaston on 6th June 2021. Classed as reasonably common south of the Midlands, but rare elsewhere. I would suggest this is a rare species in Derbyshire.
ID POINTERS – A very diagnostic and unmistakable species.
FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing May – July
IMAGES – Sandiacre, May 2019 – Ian Viles©; Breaston, June 2021 – Steve Thorpe; Belper, May 2023 – Dave Evans©
