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Moths recorded in August 2010

Recorded flying in my garden or the surrounding woods and fields, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Thumbnail images are not to scale.
Noctuidae      Micro-moths

Scalloped Hook-tip, Falcaria lacertinaria Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata Riband Wave, Idaea aversata Oblique Carpet, Orthonama vittata Flame Carpet, Xanthorhoe designata Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet, Xanthorhoe ferrugata Garden Carpet, Xanthorhoe fluctuata Common Carpet, Epirrhoe alternata Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata Purple Bar, Cosmorhoe ocellata Striped twin-spot Carpet The Chevron, Eulithis testata Small Phoenix, Ecliptopera silaceata Dark Marbled Carpet, Chloroclysta citrata Common Marbled Carpet, Chloroclysta truncata July Highflyer, Hydriomena furcata Wormwood Pug, Eupithecia absinthiata White-spotted Pug, Eupithecia tripunctaria Grey Pug Narrow-winged Pug, Eupithecia nanata Narrow-winged Pug, Eupithecia virgaureata V Pug, Chloroclystis v-ata Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Yellow-barred Brindle, Acasis viretata Clouded Border, Lomaspilis marginata Brimstone Moth, Opisthograptis luteolata Bordered Beauty, Epione repandaria Early Thorn, Selenia dentaria Scalloped Oak, Crocallis elinguaria The Engrailed, Ectropis bistortata Common White Wave, Cabera pusaria Common Wave, Cabera exanthemata Iron Prominent, Notodonta dromedarius Pebble Prominent, Notodonta ziczac Lesser Swallow Prominent, Pheosia gnoma Muslin Footman, Nudaria mundana

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Noctuidae
Dark Sword-grass, Agrotis ipsilon Flame Shoulder, Ochropleura plecta Large Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba Lesser Yellow Underwing, Noctua comes Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Noctua janthe Small Square Spot, Diarsia rubi Double Square-spot, Xestia triangulum Dotted Clay, Xestia baja Square Spot Rustic, Xestia xanthographa Antler Moth, Cerapteryx graminis Common Wainscot, Mythimna pallens Pink-barred Sallow, Xanthia togata Knot Grass, Acronicta rumicis Angle Shades, Phlogophora meticulosa Dun-bar, Cosmia trapezina Dark Arches, Apamea monoglypha Common Rustic agg, Mesapamea secalis agg Small Wainscot, Chortodes pygmina Flounced Rustic, Luperina testacea Ear Moth agg, Amphipoea oculea agg Rosy Rustic, Hydraecia micacea The Crescent, Celaena leucostigma Burnished Brass, Diachrysia chrysitis Gold Spot, Plusia festucae Silver Y, Autographa gamma Straw Dot, Rivula sericealis The Snout, Hypena proboscidalis

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Micro-moths
Brown House Moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella Carcina quercana Agonopterix ocellana Agonopterix nervosa Mirificarma mulinella Blastobasis adustella Mompha locupletella Timothy Tortrix, Aphelia paleana Red-barred Tortix, Ditula angustiorana Acleris laterana / comariana Acleris emargana Celypha lacunana Bactra lancealana Epinotia nisella Epinotia nisella Twenty-plume Moth, Alucita hexadactyla Agriphila tristella Dipleurina lacustrata Eudonia truncicolella Eudonia mercurella Udea lutealis Mother of Pearl, Pleuroptya ruralis Trachycera advenella

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