2024 April 8

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of three moths from Metchosin, all out of tripod reach, and all presenting identification challenges.  One is one of the difficult pair Eupithecia nevadata/ravocostaliata, but the mid-costal mark is brown and triangular, and Jochen, Jeremy Tatum and Libby Avis all agree that it is E. nevadata.  Another is a member of the notoriously difficult pair Triphosa haesitata/Rheumaptera [formerly Coryphista] meadii – but all three of us readily agree that this one is Triphosa haesitata.  The third one, a noctuid, was more difficult, but Libby managed to identify it as Ufeus satyricus sagittarius.

Eupithecia nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Ufeus satyricus  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr