But first some nice flies. The second of the county's three Rhinophoridae species, and the only other one I've seen, was swept from grass yesterday lunchtime - Paykullia maculata. This was accompanied by the lovely tachinid Eriothrix rufomaculata, a new and long-anticipated addition to my tachinid list.
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| Ariothrix rufomaculata |
A late evening rain cleared in time for me to head out at dusk (and then it rained a bit more but not too bad).
A few moth additions were made, along with a whole bunch of non-new species. I also stumbled into the discovery that I had probably misidentifed Smoky Wainscot previously - an error which I'll correct inline 1984 style. That will leave the impression that I never screwed it up in the first place, unless someone discovers this confession ...
Also netted on a flypast was a Brown Chafer, whose distribution displays the usual characters for a scarcely recorded species - an east coast distribution on NBN and in Brock and a Nature of fife inventory which says the species is abundant coastally. Seems to be as I also had one in my garden last week.
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| Small Fan-foot |
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| Brown Chafer and mothy ick |
Numbers:
| 750 | Paykullia maculata | Picture-winged Woodlouse-fly |
| 751 | Eriothrix rufomaculata | A tachinid fly |
| 752 | Serica brunnea | Brown Chafer |
| 753 | Xestia triangulum | Double Square-spot |
| 754 | Herminia grisealis | Small Fan-foot |
| 755 | Scoparia subfusca | A micromoth |
| 756 | Mesoligia furuncula | Cloaked Minor |
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