Brown-veined Wainscot – Noctuidae – Xyleninae – Archanara dissoluta – colour code • STATUS – A resident that is uncommon and locally distributed in Derbyshire. A reed bed species being a relict from the fenlands still surviving at a local level in the south-east of the county at wetland habitat in the Trent Valley. Now being reported from an increasing number of sites, restricted to the south of the county. ID POINTERS – The forewing is quiet broad and in the most common form – arundineta, the straw-brown base colour with grey vertical streak leading into a cross-band along the outer wing edge […]
54.009 BF0171 – Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet – Zygaenidae – Zygaena lonicerae
Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet – Zygaenidae – Zygaeninae – Zygaena lonicerae – colour code • STATUS – A locally common species found in the southern lowlands of Derbyshire and on upland areas up to 300metres. ID POINTERS – This moth is not easy to identify being very similar to Five-spot Burnet – decreta. The black border to the hind wing is narrower and the forewings are usually more pointed and more elongated. FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing June – August. IMAGES – Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet – North Derbyshire Image by Bryan Barnacle© Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet – […]
54.008 BF0169 – Six-spot Burnet – Zygaenidae – Zygaena filipendulae
Six-spot Burnet – Zygaenidae – Zygaeninae – Zygaena filipendulae – colour code • STATUS – A fairly common and attractive species found in Derbyshire Dales and suitable rough grassland of the southern low-land areas of the county. A typical day flying moth of the summer months often many feeding on knap-weeds & thistles. ID POINTERS – The moth is diagnostic, being the only British Burnet to have six crimson red spots on each forewing. FLIGHT PERIOD – On the wing June – July. IMAGES – Six-spot Burnet – by Tony Davison©; Bryan Barnacle© […]