Review of 2019 and 2020 - Moths: Pyralids (Pyralidae) - part 2: Acrobasis to Ephestia (Knot-horns II)

PYRALIDS (PYRALIDAE) (continued)


Warted Knot-horn Acrobasis repandana - None.  I'm yet to catch this species at home but I've found it at Bintree Wood so it's not far away.


Grey Knot-horn Acrobasis advenella - At least 17 here between 16th July and 17th August 2019 which, although I didn't count them on a couple of nights, was almost certainly my poorest year for the species since I came to North Elmham - I've averaged over 30 and have never recorded it on so few nights (14 nights in 2019).  In contrast my best year in 2020 with 46 over 20 nights between 12th July and 24th August.  Also recorded next door, at the meadows and at Bintree Wood.

Grey Knot-horn Acrobasis advenella, North Elmham, 16th July 2019

Grey Knot-horn Acrobasis advenella, Bintree Wood, 24th July 2020

Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella - Singles caught in my garden on 9th and 11th July 2019 and then on 6 dates between 14th July and 16th August 2020.  I hadn't trapped this species here (or anywhere) until 2017 but then caught 4 here in 2018.  Not sure if it's increasing everywhere or just here, or if it's coming out of a trough or if I'd just been unlucky with it until recently.  Also one at the meadows on 7th July 2019, the first I've caught elsewhere, and a whopping 25 at Brancaster on 2nd July 2020.

female Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows, 7th July 2019

male Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella, North Elmham, 9th July 2019

male Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella, North Elmham, 11th July 2019

male Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella, North Elmham, 18th July 2020

Marbled Knot-horn Acrobasis marmorea - None.  I've never found this species anywhere but although it's scarce there is a good scattering of records so I wouldn't be surprised to find it locally.


Broad-barred Knot-horn Acrobasis consociella - Caught in the garden on 25th July and 3rd August 2019 and 1st and 11th July 2020.  I've had 1-2 here every full year I've been here.  Also one at the meadows on 18th July 2020 and one at Bintree Wood on 24th July.

Broad-barred Knot-horn Acrobasis consociella, North Elmham, 25th July 2019

Broad-barred Knot-horn Acrobasis consociella, North Elmham, 1st July 2020

Broad-barred Knot-horn Acrobasis consociella, North Elmham, 11th July 2020

Broad-barred Knot-horn Acrobasis consociella, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows, 18th July 2020

Thistle Ermine Myelois circumvoluta - 2 at Weybourne on 5th July 2019.  None in 2020.  I've caught this species at home twice (2016 and 2017).


Dark Spruce Knot-horn Assara terebrella - None.  This used to be a rare moth but the number and spread of recent records suggests it won't be long before I find my first.


Ash-bark Knot-horn Euzophera pinguis - 3 in the garden between 25th and 28th July 2019, my worst year here - I average more than double this.  2020 more than made up for it with more than double my previous best total - 21 between 11th July and 17th August, including 4 on 12th August.  Elsewhere 5 at the meadows and singles at Swanton Great Wood and Bintree Wood.

Ash-bark Knot-horn Euzophera pinguis, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows, 18th July 2020

Saltmarsh Knot-horn Ancylosis oblitella - A new moth for me when I caught one at the meadows on 7th August 2020.  This species seems to have colonised the county in around 2018 although there are still very few records away from the southern half of the county and the east.

Saltmarsh Knot-horn Ancylosis oblitella, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows, 7th August 2020

Two-barred Knot-horn Homoeosoma sinuella - A record 16 in my garden between 23rd June and 23rd July 2019.  Peak count was 5 on 24th June, which is more than I'd ever had in a whole year before.  2020 was also a better year than usual with singles on 5 dates between 20th May and 20th June.  Elsewhere, 11 at the meadows, 4 at Bintree Wood, 4 at Weybourne and 2 at Brancaster.

Two-barred Knot-horn Homoeosoma sinuella, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows, 21st June 2019

Large Clouded Knot-horn Homoeosoma nebullela - None.  This species seems to be fairly widespread in Norfolk but it continues to elude me.


Chalk Knot-horn Phycitodes maritima - None.  Although I'd only had one in 2018 I'd recorded 16 here over the previous 3 years so 2 years without any was unexpected.


Ermine Knot-horn Phycitodes binaevella - 10 in the garden between 24th June and 25th August 2019, my equal-best year for this species here, and 4 between 17th June and 6th August 2020.  Also 2 at the meadows and singles at Bintree Wood and Brancaster.  Although it looked like this species, the Brancaster one was smaller than the given range for this species so was dissected just in case.

Ermine Knot-horn Phycitodes binaevella, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows, 30th June 2019

Ermine Knot-horn Phycitodes binaevella, North Elmham, 16th July 2019

male Ermine Knot-horn Phycitodes binaevella, Brancaster, 2nd July 2020

Pine-blossom Knot-horn Vitula biviella - None.  I've never seen this species but it seems to have recently colonised Norfolk.  Although there aren't many records away from Holme and Methwold there are a handful elsewhere including one at Ryburgh, so it might not be long before it turns up here.


Indian Meal Moth Plodia interpunctella - None.  I've only ever seen this species at my in-laws in Kent but it's pretty widespread in Norfolk so might turn up.  Not sure how often they come to light at sites where there isn't an indoors infestation though?


Cacao Moth Ephestia elutella - None.  I've caught this species here once, in 2017.


False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella - Totals of 20 at home between 24th May and 11th July 2019 and 9 between 21st May and 2nd July 2020.  I am averaging 13-14 a year here but annual totals have varied from zero (2015) to 32 (2016).

male False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 24th May 2019

female False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 23rd June 2019

female False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 24th June 2019

female False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 28th June 2019

male False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 7th July 2019

male False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 11th July 2019

female False Cacao Moth Ephestia woodiella, North Elmham, 30th June 2020

Next page: more Pyralidae

New bugs including some interesting leaf/plant hoppers

Compared to the previous two nights 25th July was relatively quiet, with just 2 new moths for the year: Dark Ash-bud Moth Prays ruficeps and Little Mompha Mompha raschkiella.

Little Mompha Mompha raschkiella, North Elmham, 25th July

The other micros were Fulvous Clothes Moth Tinea semifulvella, Bird’s-nest Moth Tinea trinotella, Garden Midget Phyllonorycter messaniella, Willow Bent-wing Phyllocnistis saligna, Little Ermine Swammerdamia pyrella, Wainscot Smudge Ypsolopha scabrella, 3 Clover Case-bearers Coleophora alcyonipennella, Woundwort Case-bearer Coleophora lineolea, 2 Long-horned Flat-bodies Carcina quercana, 2 Cinerous Nebs Bryotropha terrella, 2 House Nebs Bryotropha domestica, Ash-coloured Crest Acompsia cinerella, Orange Crest Helcystogramma rufescens, probable Four-spotted Obscure Oegoconia quadripuncta (not confirmed), 4 Dingy Dowds Blastobasis adustella, Red-barred Tortrix Ditula angustiorana, 2 Garden Rose Tortrixes Acleris variegana, 4 Barred Marbles Celypha striana, 3 Bright Bells Eucosma hohenwartiana, 2 Hoary Bells Eucosma cana, 2 Bud Moths Spilonota ocellana, 3 Garden Grass-veneers Chrysoteuchia culmella, Inlaid Grass-veneer Crambus pascuella, 236 Straw Grass-veneers Agriphila straminella, 8 Common Grass-veneers Agriphila tristella, 4 Water Veneers Acentria ephemerella, 2 Small Greys Eudonia mercurella, 2 Ringed China-marks Parapoynx stratiotata, Beautiful China-mark Nymphula nitidulata, 2 Garden Pebbles Evergestis forficalis, Lesser Pearl Sitochroa verticalis, Dusky Pearl Udea prunalis, 6 Mother of Pearls Pleuroptya ruralis and Broad-barred Knot-horn Acrobasis consociella.

Macros consisted of 2 Least Carpets, 5 Small Fan-footed Waves, 7 Single-dotted Waves, 6 Riband Waves, Red Twin-spot Carpet, 2 Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpets, 2 Small Phoenixes, July Highflyer, 2 Lime-speck Pugs, Magpie Moth, Clouded Border, Brimstone Moth, Bordered Beauty, Early Thorn, Scalloped Oak, Poplar Hawk-moth, 3 Pale Prominents, 2 Yellow-tails, 12 Dingy Footmen, Buff Ermine, 2 Ruby Tigers, 2 Turnip Moths, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Flame Shoulder, Large Yellow Underwing, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Bright-line Brown-eye, Brown-line Bright Eye, 3 Clays, Smoky Wainscot, Common Wainscot, Dun-bar, Dusky Sallow, Rosy Rustic, 19 Uncertains, 4 Rustics, Nut-tree Tussock and 3 Straw Dots.

There weren't any lacewings but these were the mayflies: Pond Olive Cloeon dipterum, 3 Pale Evening Duns Procloeon bifidum and 10 Blue-winged Olives Serratella ignita. Caddisflies consisted of Hydroptila sparsa, Hydropsyche siltalai, Medium Sedge Goera pilosa, Limnephilus auricula and Molanna angustata.

One of two leafhoppers was a lifer, Populicerus confusus (the other was Empoasca vitis).  There were 2 Amara apicaria (ground beetles) and a Hornet.

Populicerus confusus, North Elmham, 25th July

The following night was better with 427 moths of 89 species, but it was the other insects, particularly the bugs, that provided most interest.  I'll start with the moths though...

A Rivulet was the only new moth for the year, but there were a few other species I don't record very often, like what I think was a Coarse Hazel Pigmy Stigmella floslactella (but although it keyed to this relatively distinctive species the genitalia weren't an exact match to images online and other species can perhaps come close in external appearance), and a Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella (my third here this year but my first was only last year).

Rrivulet, North Elmham, 26th July

Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella, North Elmham, 26th July

I can no longer count the Willow Bent-wing Phyllocnistis saligna or any past records as these are now categorised as Grade 4 requiring dissection.  The other two Norfolk Phyllocnistis species are relatively simply eliminated on external features so I've never retained these for dissection, but there is a fourth species that has not yet been found in Norfolk, Phyllocnistis ramulicola, that looks very similar.  There may be external differences but these haven't been clearly established yet, so in future I shall have to retain and dissect any I get (though at the moment I'm not clear what the differences are in genitalia either...).

A count of 6 Four-spotted Obscures Oegoconia quadripuncta was a record - in fact I wrote 7 down in my notes as I was clearing the trap but later on I could only find 6 specimens to confirm.

Other micros were Chestnut Pigmy Stigmella samiatella, 2 Cork Moths Nemapogon cloacella, Bird’s-nest Moth Tinea trinotella, Apple Leaf-miner Lyonetia clerkella, Ribwort Slender Aspilapteryx tringipennella, 2 Garden Midgets Phyllonorycter messaniella, Horse-Chestnut Leaf-miner Cameraria ohridella, Cherry-fruit Moth Argyresthia pruniella, 2 Bird-cherry Ermines Yponomeuta evonymella, 2 Little Ermines Swammerdamia pyrella, Hawthorn Ermine Paraswammerdamia nebulella, Wainscot Smudge Ypsolopha scabrella, 5 Diamond-backs Plutella xylostella, Clover Case-bearer Coleophora alcyonipennella, Little Dwarf Elachista canapennella, 4 Golden-brown Tubics Crassa unitella, 3 Small Dingy Tubics Borkhausenia fuscescens, 5 Brown House Moths Hofmannophila pseudospretella, 4 Long-horned Flat-bodies Carcina quercana, Common Flat-body Agonopterix heracliana, 2 Cinerous Nebs Bryotropha terrella, Orange Crest Helcystogramma rufescens, 9 Dingy Dowds Blastobasis adustella, Hawthorn Cosmet Blastodacna hellerella, Common Yellow Conch Agapeta hamana, Burdock Conch Aethes rubigana, Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis heparana, Privet Tortrix Clepsis consimilana, Light Brown Apple-moth Epiphyas postvittana, Garden Rose Tortrix Acleris variegana, 3 Barred Marbles Celypha striana, Holly Tortrix Rhopobota naevana, 3 Hoary Bells Eucosma cana, 2 Bud Moths Spilonota ocellana, Marbled Piercer Cydia splendana, Garden Grass-veneer Chrysoteuchia culmella, Pale-streak Grass-veneer Agriphila selasella, 225 Straw Grass-veneers Agriphila straminella, 20 Common Grass-veneers Agriphila tristella, Pearl Grass-veneer Catoptria pinella, Chequered Grass-veneer Catoptria falsella, 3 Pale Water-veneers Donacaula forficella, 2 Water Veneers Acentria ephemerella, Small Grey Eudonia mercurella, Ringed China-mark Parapoynx stratiotata, Small Magpie Anania hortulata, Pale Straw Pearl Udea lutealis and 7 Mother of Pearls Pleuroptya ruralis.

The rest of the macros were Blood-vein, Least Carpet, 2 Small Fan-footed Waves, 7 Single-dotted Waves, Small Scallop, 4 Riband Waves, 5 Red Twin-spot Carpets, 2 Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpets, Yellow Shell, Small Phoenix, July Highflyer, Canary-shouldered Thorn, Early Thorn, Scalloped Oak, Willow Beauty, Pale Prominent, Yellow-tail, Black Arches, 6 Dingy Footmen, 2 Common Footmen, 3 Ruby Tigers, 2 Shuttle-shaped Darts, Flame Shoulder, 2 Large Yellow Underwings, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Double Square-spot, 3 Clays, 2 Smoky Wainscots, Straw Underwing, 4 Dun-bars, Common Rustic, 11 Uncertains, 4 Rustics, 2 Nut-tree Tussocks, Spectacle and 3 Straw Dots.

Mayflies consisted of Pond Olive Cloeon dipterum, Pale Evening Dun Procloeon bifidum, 4 Green Drakes Ephemera danica and 11 Blue-winged Olives Serratella ignita.  Although Green Drakes are the largest Mayfly they don't seem to be very hardy and perhaps only survive one night as most of those I trap are found dead in the bottom of the trap.  All 4 of today's were dead.

A waxfly was a female Coniopteryx - females can't be identified to species level unfortunately.  The only other Neuroptera was the brown lacewing Micromus variegatus.

Caddisflies were 3 Ithytrichia lamellaris, Polycentropus flavomaculatus, Hydropsyche siltalai, Mottled Sedge Glyphotaelius pellucidus, Athripsodes aterrimus and 3 Grouse Wings Mystacides longicornis.

It's been a good summer for me finding new species of bug already, and on this one night I caught no less than 4 new species!  Starting with the heteropteran bugs, Orthotylus flavosparsus was a lifer, Pinalitus cervinus was new for the year and there were 2 more Trigonotylus caelestialium.

Orthotylus flavosparsus, North Elmham, 26th July

Pinalitus cervinus, North Elmham, 26th July

The homopteran bugs threw up some surprises.  Cicadula frontalis was the first lifer, followed by one I wouldn't necessarily expect here, Opsius stactogalus.  It sounds like this is a new colonists, initially to southern England, but it feeds on Tamarisk which I think of as mainly a coastal plant.  Maybe someone has some Tamarisk locally, but I don't recall seeing it.  Anyway, it seems to be quite a distinctive species so I presume my ID is correct (though of course I always welcome corrections if any reader notices a mistake).  An Empoasca vitis was the only other leafhopper.

Cicadula frontalis, North Elmham, 26th July

Opsius stactogalus, North Elmham, 26th July

The following planthopper proved to be another interesting find.  This one was quite an ID challenge having to be keyed out carefully but in the end I am left with no other options apart from Struebingianella lugubrina.  On the face of it this seems rather unlikely as this prefers marshy habitats and is normally brachypterous (i.e. has very reduced wings).  The texts say that macropterous (full-winged) individuals occur rarely (though I can't find any photos of any) so the odds of me trapping a full-winged individual in my garden seem rather low.  But I have checked it carefully and if the key is right then that's what it is.  Of course new leafhoppers are being found all the time and some of them become common in a short space of time, so perhaps there is another similar species that doesn't feature in the key?  I shall enquire about this when I submit my records but in the meantime I'm putting it down as a macropterous Struebingianella lugubrina.  I suppose you could argue that macropterous individuals, rare though they may be, might be the individuals that are most likely to wander far from their usual locations and turn up in moth traps.

(Update May 2021: finally getting round now to submitting my records for 2018-2020 and I was reminded of this record and decided to review it before submitting it.  I've still not encountered many similar members of this family though I have now come across a few Javesella and was immediately struck by its general similarity to Javesella species.  However, Javesella show a black frons, so this appears not to be one of them.  The British Bugs website has been updated since I found this so I had another look there for inspiration and noticed a rather similar looking example of Scottianella dalei (a macropterous female - macropters are supposed to be rare for that species too), so I checked where that diverged from lugubrina in the key.  The couplet that pushed me to lugubrina rather than dalei (and I think it would have ended up at dalei if I'd gone the other way) was an assessment of size.  It seems that I didn't keep the specimen (or at least I can't find it) and I didn't record the size, so I can't double check that now, but assuming I measured it correctly, might it have been an unusually large dalei?  Well, the gonocoxae are important with this group, and I have a photo of its gonocoxae - and they're quite wrong for dalei and do indeed appear to be a good match for lugubrina.  Indeed none of the gonocoxae illustrated in the key are a good match for it apart from lugubrina.  So for now at least it stays down as lugubrina, but I remain open to correction should that be necessary.  But I do note that lugubrina is described as "apparently expanding" and the NBN Atlas does show a few records in Norfolk).

apparent macropterous Struebingianella lugubrina, North Elmham, 26th July - the lower photo shows the gonocoxa the shape of which is a significant clue to the identification

Beetles included 3 Amara apricaria, 5 Bradycellus verbasci, 2 Hydrobius fuscipes, Nicrophorus investigator, Aphodius rufipes, Common Red Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha fulva and what I think was either Ophonus puncticeps or Ophonus schaubergerianus.  There were also two rove beetles that I am currently unable to identify - a smallish black one and a large black one.  I thought the latter was going to be a Devil's Coach Horse or something similar but it seems not to be that genus even.  I've kept hold of them for now and will check again if I ever get any better references for rove beetles.

The only other thing I noted was a Common Wasp.

Sorhagenia rhamniella (August Cosmet) - a new genus of moth for me

There are 3 species of Sorhagenia in Norfolk but none of them are common.  Two species have just 3 records each to their name while the third has 13 - from just 4 observers.  So it's no surprise that I hadn't encountered any up to now, but this changed on 15th July when I trapped the commonest of the three, August Cosmet Sorhagenia rhamniella.

August Cosmet Sorhagenia rhamniella (male, gen det), North Elmham, 15th July

It was a fairly busy night with 406 moths of 107 species.  Other new moths for the year were all micros: Pale Red Slender Caloptilia elongella, Speckled Case-bearer Coleophora sternipennella, 2 White-triangle Buttons Acleris holmiana, 3 Marbled Piercers Cydia splendana, Barred Grass-veneer Agriphila inquinatella, Chequered Grass-veneer Catoptria falsella and Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella (only my second here).

Pale Red Slender Caloptilia elongella (female, gen det), North Elmham, 15th July

White-triangle Button Acleris holmiana, North Elmham, 15th July

Marbled Piercer Cydia splendana, North Elmham, 15th July

Barred Grass-veneer Agriphila inquinatella, North Elmham, 15th July

Thicket Knot-horn Acrobasis suavella, North Elmham, 15th July

The other micros were Bird’s-nest Moth Tinea trinotella, 10 Bird-cherry Ermines Yponomeuta evonymella, Ermine sp. Yponomeuta padella/malinellus/cagnagella, 2 Hawthorn Ermines Paraswammerdamia nebulella, 2 Diamond-backs Plutella xylostella, 2 Clover Case-bearers Coleophora alcyonipennella, 2 Little Dwarfs Elachista canapennella, Triple-spot Dwarf Elachista maculicerusella, Lesser Tawny Tubic Batia lunaris, Golden-brown Tubic Crassa unitella, Small Dingy Tubic Borkhausenia fuscescens, 2 Long-horned Flat-bodies Carcina quercana, Burdock Neb Metzneria lappella, Common Groundling Teleiodes vulgella, Cinerous Neb Bryotropha terrella, 2 Orange Crests Helcystogramma rufescens, Dingy Dowd Blastobasis adustella, Hawthorn Cosmet Blastodacna hellerella, Common Yellow Conch Agapeta hamana, Black-headed Conch Cochylis atricapitana, 3 Dark Fruit-tree Tortrixes Pandemis heparana, Rose Tortrix Archips rosana, 9 Privet Tortrixes Clepsis consimilana, 2 Grey Tortrixes Cnephasia stephensiana, Cereal Tortrix Cnephasia pumicana, 2 Barred Marbles Celypha striana, 2 Common Marbles Celypha lacunana, 2 Common Cloaked Shoots Gypsonoma dealbana, Summer Rose Bell Notocelia roborana, 11 Hoary Bells Eucosma cana, 3 Many-plume Moths Alucita hexadactyla, 4 Garden Grass-veneers Chrysoteuchia culmella, 2 Inlaid Grass-veneers Crambus pascuella, Satin Grass-veneer Crambus perlella, 96 Straw Grass-veneers Agriphila straminella, 2 Common Grass-veneers Agriphila tristella, Pearl Grass-veneer Catoptria pinella, Pale Water-veneer Donacaula forficella, 10 Water Veneers Acentria ephemerella, 3 Little Greys Eudonia lacustrata, Small Grey Eudonia mercurella, Elder Pearl Anania coronata, 2 Pale Straw Pearls Udea lutealis, 15 Mother of Pearls Pleuroptya ruralis, 3 Rosy Tabbies Endotricha flammealis, Beautiful Knot-horn Rhodophaea formosa, Dotted Oak Knot-horn Phycita roborella and 2 Common Plumes Emmelina monodactyla.

Black-headed Conch Cochylis atricapitana, North Elmham, 15th July

Cereal Tortrix Cnephasia pumicana (male, gen det), North Elmham, 15th July

The macros consisted of Leopard Moth, Chinese Character, Buff Arches, 6 Small Fan-footed Waves, Dwarf Cream Wave, 8 Single-dotted Waves, Small Scallop, 6 Riband Waves, 2 Red Twin-spot Carpets, Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet, 2 Large Twin-spot Carpets, 2 Shaded Broad-bars, Common Carpet, 2 Barred Straws, July Highflyer, Small Rivulet, 3 V-Pugs, 4 Clouded Borders, 2 Brimstone Moths, 3 Early Thorns, Scalloped Oak, Engrailed, Clouded Silver, Lesser Swallow Prominent, Pale Prominent, 2 Yellow-tails, 5 Rosy Footmen, 22 Dingy Footmen, 2 Scarce Footmen, Buff Footman, 26 Common Footmen, 2 Buff Ermines, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Flame Shoulder, Large Yellow Underwing, 8 Double Square-spots, Dot Moth, Bright-line Brown-eye, Clay, 8 Smoky Wainscots, 2 Dark Arches, Slender Brindle, Cloaked Minor, Common Rustic, Dusky Sallow, 27 Uncertains, 4 Rustics, Nut-tree Tussock, Beautiful Hook-tip, Snout and Fan-foot.

Leopard Moth, North Elmham, 15th July

Mayflies included Pond Olive Cloeon dipterum, Green Drake Ephemera danica and 10 Blue-winged Olives Serratella ignita. There was the green lacewing Cunctochrysa albolineata while the brown lacewing Micromus variegatus was new for the year.

Micromus variegatus, North Elmham, 15th July

Caddisflies included one new for the house, Agraylea sexmaculata, one new for the year, Orthotrichia costalis, and Oxyethira flavicornis, Hydropsyche siltalai, Medium Sedge Goera pilosa, Limnephilus lunatus, probable Athripsodes aterrimus and Leptocerus tineiformis.

Agraylea sexmaculata, North Elmham, 15th July

A leafhopper was likely to be Kybos betulicola which would have been new for the year but as it was a female, the similar Kybos smaragdula cannot be eliminated.  Beetles included 3 Lagria hirta.