2018 January 18

 

   Jochen Moehr sends photographs of a moth and a caddisfly from Metchosin, and I am enormously indebted to Libby Avis for the identifications.  Libby writes: The moth is a Hypena, no question and I’m pretty sure it’s one of the darker Hypena californica – pronounced wedge at apex and I’ve also often seen them with a smaller offset dark dot between the orbicular spot and the trailing edge of the wing.

 

  The caddis fly is a limnephilid and it looks very much like a photo of Scott Gilmore’s on BG which was ID’d as Glyphopsyche irrorata. If you go into Bug Guide: www.bugguide.net and type in the number 1043396 in the search box in the top right, you’ll call it up. Have also attached a photo of one of ours which was confirmed by DNA, but Jochen’s is a bit darker and I think looks closer to Scott’s.

 

Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Caddisfly Glyphopsyche irrorata (Tri.: Limnephilidae)

 Jochen Moehr

 

Caddisfly Glyphopsyche irrorata (Tri.: Limnephilidae) Libby Avis