Comments on: Little black micro http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2012/05/19/little-black-micro/ Topical information from the Suffolk Moth Group Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Tony Prichard http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2012/05/19/little-black-micro/#comment-92 Tony Prichard Sun, 20 May 2012 07:11:09 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=1191#comment-92 Hi Mark. It’s possible, although the wings are normally more dark bronze-coloured. M. aruncella is the confusion species, the female doesn’t have distinctive white fascia of the male, so can be confused with M. calthella. If it has purple-colouring at the base of the wing then it will be M. aruncella. M. calthella is much the commoner species it appears.

Tony

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