Posted by ChrisR on 07-01-2011 22:30
#10
OK, to me the correct area of the wing is now being looked at and it does have the necessary minute hairs. If I remember the key correctly you only look for hairs if you are happy that it is not
P.nemea and this one has a blue/grey parafrontal so it shouldn't be
P.nemea ... and looking back at photo 1 there do appear to be orange/brown abdominal side patches so ... male genitalia aside ... to me this looks fairly like
P.heraclei but I would still recommend putting in the extra work to prove it by relaxing the specimen and hooking the genitalia out :)
P.heraclei is the third commonest
Phryxe spp. in Britain, in my experience - followed by
magnicornis &
erythrostoma (both of which are very rare)
Edited by ChrisR on 07-01-2011 22:33