Description:
c28mm wingspan
Habitat:
Balcony, attracted from surrounding countryside by night light. Limestone outcrop in foothills of Los Serranos mountains.
Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Spotted on Oct 29, 2014
Submitted on Dec 16, 2014
3 Comments
Sorry, 17 species!
Hi Paul, not sure about the Clancy's Rustic, this one does not have the two dark circular bands near the back of the wings, so I would favour the Pale Mottled Willow. I will wait awhile and see if Maniacval comes up with anything, he has been going through my spottings this week.
There are 13 species of Caradrina listed for Spain, I found about half and one other looks similar. Here is the full list:
Caradrina germainii (Duponchel, 1835)
Caradrina morpheus (Hufnagel, 1766)
Caradrina armeniaca (Boursin, 1936)
Caradrina distigma (Chretien, 1913)
Caradrina flava Oberthür, 1876
Caradrina ibeasi (Fernandez, 1918)
Caradrina ingrata Staudinger, 1897
Caradrina clavipalpis Scopoli, 1763
Caradrina flavirena Guenee, 1852
Caradrina fuscicornis Rambur, 1832
Caradrina noctivaga Bellier, 1863
Caradrina selini Boisduval, 1840
Caradrina wullschlegeli Pungeler, 1903
Caradrina aspersa Rambur, 1834
Caradrina kadenii Freyer, 1836
Caradrina proxima Rambur, 1837
Caradrina terrea Freyer, 1840
Hi Malcolm ,how about ----Clancy's Rustic (Caradrina kadenii).Pale mottled Willow is also quite similar .