Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small Caterpillar

Posted by Roger Thomason on 21-10-2010 18:04
#1

Found at the Burn of Valayre in August. Can anyone put a name to this?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 21-10-2010 19:53
#2

Eupithecia, I think, but which Pug, I'm not sure - possibly Bordered (succenturiata) or Tawny Speckled (icterata)

Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-10-2010 16:29
#3

Thanks Tony
Ian Kimber @ UK Moths couldn't improve on Eupithecia sp., too many similar looking ones to ID it positively...without rearing it through, and finding it on very specific foodplants. I thought it might have been a Satyr, but it will remain in the evergrowing pile of unknown sp's.

Regards Roger