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Moths recorded in August 2011

Recorded flying in my garden or the surrounding woods and fields, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Thumbnail images are not to scale.
Noctuidae      Micro-moths      August 2010

Ghost Moth, Hepialus humuli Grass Emerald, Pseudoterpna pruinata Large Emerald, Geometra papilionaria Common Emerald, Hemithea aestivaria Small Fan-footed Wave, Idaea biselata Single-dotted Wave, Idaea dimidiata Riband Wave, Idaea aversata Riband Wave, Idaea aversata ab remutata Oblique Carpet, Orthonama vittata Flame Carpet, Xanthorhoe designata Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet, Xanthorhoe ferrugata Common Carpet, Epirrhoe alternata Striped twin-spot Carpet Small Phoenix, Ecliptopera silaceata Dark Marbled Carpet, Chloroclysta citrata Common Marbled Carpet, Chloroclysta truncata July Highflyer, Hydriomena furcata Sharp-angled Carpet, Euphyia unangulata Small Rivulet, Perizoma alchemillata Foxglove Pug, Eupithecia pulchellata Wormwood Pug, Eupithecia absinthiata Ling Pug, Eupithecia absinthiata f goossensiata White-spotted Pug, Eupithecia tripunctaria Narrow-winged Pug, Eupithecia virgaureata V Pug, Chloroclystis v-ata Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata Welsh Wave, Venusia cambrica 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 Swallow-tailed Moth, Ourapteryx sambucaria Satin Beauty, Deileptenia ribeata Mottled Beauty, Alcis repandata The Engrailed, Ectropis bistortata Common White Wave, Cabera pusaria Common Wave, Cabera exanthemata Poplar Hawkmoth, Laothoe populi Elephant Hawk-moth, Deilephila elpenor Iron Prominent, Notodonta dromedarius Pebble Prominent, Notodonta ziczac Lesser Swallow Prominent, Pheosia gnoma Coxcomb Prominent, Ptilodon capucina Muslin Footman, Nudaria mundana Garden Tiger, Arctia caja White Ermine, Spilosoma lubricipeda

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Noctuidae
Heart and Dart, Agrotis exclamationis Dark Sword-grass, Agrotis ipsilon The Flame, Axylia putris Flame Shoulder, Ochropleura plecta Large Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba Lesser Yellow Underwing, Noctua comes Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Noctua janthe Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Noctua janthe Least Yellow Underwing, Noctua interjecta True Lover's Knot, Lycophotia porphyrea Purple Clay, Diarsia brunnea Small Square Spot, Diarsia rubi Double Square-spot, Xestia triangulum Dotted Clay, Xestia baja Six-striped Rustic, Xestia sexstrigata Square Spot Rustic, Xestia xanthographa Green Arches, Anaplectoides prasina Grey Arches, Polia nebulosa Dot Moth, Melanchra persicariae Bright-line Brown-eye, Lacanobia oleracea The Clay, Mythimna ferrago Smoky Wainscot, Mythimna impura Pink-barred Sallow, Xanthia togata Old Lady, Mormo maura Dun-bar, Cosmia trapezina Dark Arches, Apamea monoglypha Light Arches, Apamea lithoxylaea Dusky Brocade, Apamea remissa Middle-barred Minor, Oligia fasciuncula Common Rustic agg, Mesapamea secalis agg Small Dotted Buff, Photedes minima Small Wainscot, Chortodes pygmina Flounced Rustic, Luperina testacea Ear Moth agg, Amphipoea oculea agg Rosy Rustic, Hydraecia micacea The Crescent, Celaena leucostigma The Uncertain, Hoplodrina alsines The Rustic, Hoplodrina blanda Burnished Brass, Diachrysia chrysitis Gold Spot, Plusia festucae Beautiful Golden Y, Autographa pulchrina Plain Golden Y, Autographa jota Dark Spectacle, Abrostola triplasia The Spectacle, Abrostola tripartita Straw Dot, Rivula sericealis The Snout, Hypena proboscidalis

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Micro-moths
Case-bearing Clothes Moth, Tinea pellionella Caloptilia leucapennella Caloptilia syringella Phyllonorycter hilarella Argyresthia goedartella Argyresthia semifusca Honeysuckle Moth, Ypsolopha dentella Ypsolopha parenthesella Plutella porrectella Carcina quercana Parsnip Moth, Depressaria heraclei Mirificarma mulinella Batrachedra praeangusta Gelechia sororculella Hypatima rhomboidella Helcystogramma rufescens Blastobasis adustella Mompha propinquella Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix, Pandemis cerasana Timothy Tortrix, Aphelia paleana Acleris sparsana Acleris ferrugana/notana Epinotia immundana Epinotia nisella Nut Bud Moth, Epinotia tenerana Holly Tortrix, Rhopobota naevana Zeiraphera isertana Gypsonoma dealbana Cydia splendana Twenty-plume Moth, Alucita hexadactyla Garden Grass-veneer, Chrysoteuchia culmella Agriphila straminella Agriphila tristella Agriphila inquinatella Catoptria pinella Scoparia ambigualis Dipleurina lacustrata Eudonia truncicolella Eudonia mercurella Brown China Mark, Elophila nymphaeata Evergestis pallidata Udea lutealis Udea prunalis Mother of Pearl, Pleuroptya ruralis Bee Moth, Aphomia sociella Trachycera advenella Emmelina monodactyla

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