I have never dissected a Common Rustic agg. from Dingestow before, but the appearance of a tiny black individual with strongly white stigmas at MV last night (8/8) tempted me to try for Lesser Common Rustic. Sure enough, its Clavus was weakly sclerotized, with no sign of teeth at all. There appear to be just 1 or 2 previous gen. det. records of this species from VC35, although I don't think that anyone else is checking Common Rustics.
More genuinely notable was a
Caryocolum that came to actinic at Dingestow Court on 26/7. I wasn't sure which member of this tricky genus it would be, but dissection revealed the very distinctive male genitalia of
C. fraternella. Although this is a common species in much of England, it has very few Welsh records and was new for VC35.
Pretty than either was my first Orange Swift of the year.
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