(1509) Stenoptilia pterodactyla (5915980910)

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Catch Report - 03/07/11 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire Trapped last night under semi-cloudy conditions and perfect temperatures once again. Little or no wind made the catch immense come the morning, the final tally is 91 species. Best species were a single Small Mottled Willow and 2 Dark Sword-grass, which are migrants from Europe. Other species of note included my first Mompha propinquella & Stenoptilia pterodactyla and also an unidentified micro, which turns out to be Eulamprotes atrella a good record for Hertfordshire.
Catch Report - 03/07/11 - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap - Farmland/back garden
Macro Moths 1x Angle Shades 3x Beautiful Hook-tip 1x Blood-vein 2x Bright-line Brown-eye 2x Brimstone Moth 3x Brown Rustic 2x Brown-line Bright-eye 2x Buff Arches 1x Buff Ermine 4x Buff-tip 3x Burnished Brass 1x Clay 1x Clouded Silver 1x Common Emerald 59x Common Footman 1x Common Wainscot 14x Dark Arches 2x Dark Sword-grass 3x Dot Moth 6x Double Square-spot 2x Dun-bar 3x Dwarf Cream Wave 1x Elephant Hawk-moth 1x Engrailed 2x Flame 3x Flame Shoulder 1x Green Pug 1x Grey Dagger 2x Heart & Club 8x Heart & Dart 1x Large Twin-spot Carpet 3x Large Yellow Underwing 3x Latticed Heath 1x Least Carpet 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY] 2x Light Arches 1x Marbled Minor 4x Mottled Beauty 2x Mottled Rustic 1x Nutmeg 1x Peach Blossom 6x Peppered Moth 1x Poplar Grey 2x Privet Hawk-moth 3x Riband Wave 1x Rustic 2x Scalloped Oak 1x Short-cloaked Moth 1x Shoulder-striped Wainscot 2x Single-dotted Wave 1x Small Dotted Buff 1x Small Emerald [NFY] 1x Small Fan-foot 1x Small Mottled Willow [NFY] 1x Small Yellow Wave 3x Smoky Wainscot 3x Snout 2x Swallow-tailed Moth 17x Uncertain 1x Willow Beauty 1x Yellow-tail Micro Moths 1x Red-barred Tortrix Ditula angustiorana [NFY] 1x Eulamprotes atrella [NEW!] 1x Pseudargyrotoza conwagana 1x Lozotaenia forsterana 1x Lozotaeniodes formosanus 3 x Blastobasis lacticolella 1x Mompha propinquella [NEW!] 3x Cnephasia sp. 2x Agapeta hamana 1x Udea olivalis 2x Scoparia ambigualis 1x Bird-cherry Ermine Yponomeuta evonymella 14x Chrysoteuchia culmella 3x Celypha striana 2x Phycita roborella 4x Celypha lacunana 1x Stenoptilia pterodactyla [NEW!] 1x Emmelina monodactyla 2x Cochylis atricapitana 1x Codling Moth Cydia pomonella 2x Thistle Ermine Myelois circumvoluta 1x Gold Triangle Hypsopygia costalis [NFY] 1x Cyclamen Tortrix Clepsis spectrana 2x Dipleurina lacustrata 5x Water Veneer Acentria ephemerella [NFY] 1x Small Magpie Eurrhypara hortulata 2x Aleimma loeflingiana 2x Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana 6x Crambus perlella