Spotted
Magpie.
(Phlyctaenia coronata)
Outside the moth trap,
on the cover, ready to fly away.
Information:
This one was not in my book of all the UK macro-moths and so
there was a pause before I discovered it was a Phlyctaenia
coronata, and from that the English name. In America it has the
common name 'Crowned Phlyctaenia' which echoes the Latin
'coronata'. If you look at the fore-wing tip you will see a pair
of zig-zags that are, probably, the 'crown' to which the name
refers. This 'Crown' mark is, in any event, a clear diagnostic
aid to identifying the moth which, otherwise, looks a bit like a
sepia'd negative version of a Small Magpie without the prominent
yellow markings !
I don't know their flight times or habitat preferences ...
yet.