Newly named species of Anarsia

I’d like to draw members’ attention to this paper http://nl.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=11184
Two Anarsia examples trapped in my Ipswich garden, in 2015 and 2016, have been identified (from the photos) by Ole Karsholt as the newly named species A. innoxiella.
I expect A. innoxiella will prove to occur more frequently than A. lineatella given it’s more widespread foodplant.

Ipswich, July 2015

Ipswich, July 2015

Ipswich, July 2016

Ipswich, July 2016

Paul

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3 Responses to Newly named species of Anarsia

  1. Paul Kitchener says:

    Sorry for the poor excuse for a link. I did try and rectify it.
    Paul

  2. Raymond Watson says:

    Thanks for posting this Paul. The issue I think surfaced initially in UK moth circles on the dissection site. It made a great deal of sense to me when I first saw it. I had been bemused as to how a peach twig borer was turning up widely across Britain. We now know that actually it is an Acer feeder. Makes a lot more sense! I am of the opinion that most if not all the records of the Peach Twig Borer will turn our to be A. innoxiella and feel that we may well have missed it in years gone by.

  3. Neil says:

    All of my sightings of this moth are certainly innoxiella as they are identical to your photos Paul. I expect all recent Suffolk reports to be the species also. We saw it in the brecks last year so there is at least one record for that vice county too. Plenty of Field maple around me.

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