Which Caloptilia? Caught Farnborough overnight 25-26 March (1 Viewer)

[Farnboro John]

Hi All,

I think this micro has to be a Caloptilia but I'm not at all sure which one, the favourite guess currently being maybe C. rufipennella. Can anybody help?

Cheers

John

 

[dwallace]

John,

It's as good a guess as any but you'd probably need to look carefully at the specimen at the very least. I did consider semifascia but that didn't seem quite right either.

Dave W

 

[Farnboro John]

Funnily enough that was my original idea but I read that it was the second generation of the year that looks like mine. It's just occurred to me that if this is an overwintering adult that would be right!

John