Papallones nocturnes al meu porxo...

[P. Arbona]

Hola a tots,

cada cop m'agrada més descubrir i fotografiar papallones nocturnes.... i aquesta setmana, al meu porxo, he pogut fotografiar bastants d'exemplars... tot seguit, una petita mostra (tambè hi ha un neuròptera -Chrysopa camea-)

(si algú està interessat, en el meu blog tinc varies entrades amb papallones nocturnes)

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- http://fauna-vida-color-planeta-azul.bl ... parte.html
- http://fauna-vida-color-planeta-azul.bl ... parte.html

[Martin Honey]

Hi
Here are my determinations:
The first is probably Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Pterophoridae) but it is difficult from the underside.
#2 is probably Idaea minuscularia (Geometridae)
#3 is probably Clepsis coriacana (Tortricidae)
#4 is an Alucita sp. (Alucitidae), one of two species recorded from the Balearic Islands, it really needs dissection.
#5 is Eudonia angustea (Crambidae: Scopariinae)
#6 is another Idaea minuscularia
#7 is Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (Geometridae)
#8 is the same species
#9 I'm not sure about this one. I need to look at a few more specimens.
Are these all from Mallorca?
Are the photos on your blog from the Balearic Islands?
Best wishes
Martin

[Martin Honey]

I now think #9 is Xanthorhoe fluctuata iberaria (Geometridae)
Martin

[P. Arbona]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for identifying the photographs that I have uploaded, and thank you also for visiting my blog, "fauna, vida y color en el planeta azul".

I do not usually identify them, due to the difficulty of knowing and differentiating the huge number of them. The guides are not usually enough instrument to do it safely ... although some would be right, in many others they would be wrong.

And yes, all the photos that you have identified are taken on the porch of my house in Mallorca.

The photos on my blog, are made in Mallorca, Catalonia, and northern Spain (mainly Asturias and northern León)

I have many more photos of nocturnal butterflies (as I mentioned, I am getting more and more passionate about discovering and photographing them), and also of daytime butterflies, all kinds of insects and vertebrates, that are put within "shot" of my camera lens.

P. Arbona

[P. Arbona]

Hola a tots,

unes fotos dels últims mesos:

[Martin Honey]

Hi Patricia
I'm now back on-line thanks to Toni.
Here are some determinations, the others will need a bit more research
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
Idaea sp.
Idaea sp.
Peridroma saucia
Ctenoplusia limbirena [when and where was this from?]
Idaea/Scopula sp.
Pterophoridae
Nebula ibericata
Acrobasis obliqua
Tortricidae
Eutelia adulatrix x2
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
Horisme scorteata
Udea ferrugalis x2
Heliothis peltigera
Earias insulana
Heliothis peltigera and Autographa gamma
Zebeeba falsalis
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
Eudonea angustea in copula
Catarhoe basochesiata
Eupithecia centaureata
Hecatera dysodea
Palpita vitrealis
Geometridae
Hypena lividalis
Mythimna unipuncta
Thera cupressata
Hydriris ornatalis
Phaigramma faustinata x2
Autographa gamma
Peridroma saucia
Tineidae larva
Heliothis peltigera? underside
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
Eudonea angustea
Hyles livornica.