Comments on: Q hemidactylella http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2017/04/09/q-hemidactylella/ 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: paulb http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2017/04/09/q-hemidactylella/#comment-2506 paulb Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:13:49 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6840#comment-2506 Thanks Raymond. In a seperate e-mail conversation it was suggested I check the hind-leg colour and, if not too worn, the cillia. The latter look worn to me so I concentrated on leg colour, which I would say look off-white, not pure white.

Definitely one for the chop as hemid’ will only be the second site record, and betulicola would be new.

]]> By: Raymond Watson http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2017/04/09/q-hemidactylella/#comment-2504 Raymond Watson Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:13:39 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6840#comment-2504 I would say betulicola too.

]]> By: paulb http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2017/04/09/q-hemidactylella/#comment-2503 paulb Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:10:09 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6840#comment-2503 Hello Paul
Thanks for your comments. The moth’s dead – so will probably get it checked anyway – but looking at the palps this morning under a lens, they seemed reasonably uniform in colour, perhaps with a darker brown tip. There are a couple of small birch trees near the garden too so looking more likely to be betulicola.

]]> By: Paul Kitchener http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/index.php/2017/04/09/q-hemidactylella/#comment-2502 Paul Kitchener Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:24:01 +0000 http://suffolkmoths.org.uk/blog/?p=6840#comment-2502 Hi Paul,
From the photo it may also be C. betulicola. If you still have it check the palps. I believe C. hemidactylella has banded palps and in C. betulicola they are of one colour.
Paul

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