[0758] Recurvaria leucatella

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Knights in White Satin meet Small Ranunculus!Where are all the Heart & Darts and Large Yellow Underwings?A nice tidy catch last night and great to get some more records for the garden.I have decided to roll two garden catches into one as I have really been pushedfor time recently.Some great moths and a superb boost for the garden list.Highlights were of course a new moth for me, a Small Ranunculus which unfortunatelywas in such an awful state bless it, a stunningBroad-barred White, 3 glorious White Satin's, Nutmeg, Lychnis and Cabbage Moth.The micro Recurvaria leucatella was a great record as was a new garden record for Prays ruficeps, easily an overlooked moth having not long ago been seperated from fraxinella f.rusticaCatch Report - 29/07/13 & 30/07/13 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson trapMacro Moths1x Small Ranunculus [NEW!]7x Small Fan-footed Wave [NFG]1x Broad-barred White [NFG]3x White Satin [NFG]1x Smoky Wainscot [NFG]1x Clay [NFG]1x Peach Blossom [NFG]1x Scalloped Oak [NFG]1x Ruby Tiger [NFG]1x Cabbage Moth [NFG]1x Nutmeg [NFG]1x Slender Pug [NFG]1x Lychnis [NFG]3x Straw Underwing [NFY]1x Vapourer [NFY]1x Yellow-tail [NFY]1x Lesser Yellow Underwing [NFY]1x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing [NFY]12x Dun-bar1x Purple Thorn1x Herald1x Fern12x Peppered Moth1x July Highflyer6x Common Footman1x Short-cloaked Moth13x Riband Wave2x Swallow-tailed Moth5x Willow Beauty3x Snout26x Dot Moth6x Mottled Rustic22x Bright-line Brown-eye1x Buff-tip29x Dark Arches21x Uncertain23x Common Rustic5x V-pug4x Shuttle-shaped Dart9x Silver-Y3x Early Thorn1x Cloaked Minor1x Buff Arches2x Nut-tree Tussock3x Double Square-spot1x Rustic1x Single-dotted Wave1x Pale Prominent1x Clouded Border2x Heart & Dart1x Small Blood-vein1X Spectacle1x Poplar Hawk-moth1x Angle Shades1x Large Yellow Underwing1x Clouded Silver1x Grey Dagger1x Engrailed1x Mottled BeautyMicro Moths1x Recurvaria leucatella [NFG]1x Prays ruficeps [NFG]1x Tischeria ekebladella [NFG]1x Lozotaeniodes formosanus [NFG]1x Helcystogramma rufescens [NFG]17x Agriphila straminella [NFY]1x Acleris variegana [NFY]5x Agriphila tristella [NFY]1x Ditula angustiorana1x Carcina quercana1x Plutella xylostella2x Udea prunalis2x Chrysoteuchia culmella10x Endotricha flammealis2x Pleuroptya ruralis3x Eudonia mercurella1x Eurrhypara hortulata2x Zeiraphera isertana1x Celypha striana1x Blastobasis adustella2x Blastobasis laticolella1x Epiphyas postvittana1x Argyresthia spinosella1x Emmelina monodactyla1x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla2x Batia unitella1x Epiblema uddmanniana2x Dipleurina lacustrata1x Coleophora mayrella3x Phycita roborella2x Acleris hastiana2x Spilonota ocellana1x Epiblema cirsiana3x Trachycera advenella2x Clepsis consimilana1x Pterophorus pentadactyla4x Yponomeuta evonymella1x Pandemis heparana