A warm night after weeks of cool damp weather saw large numbers of small beetles, black crickets, and hoards of small winged insects make things difficult at the moth light. Moths were sparse, but there were some interesting arrivals nonetheless. When MoV volume 9 was published there were only two Victorian specimens of Leucania polysticha, from the north of the state near Yackandandah, since then there have been a few more records from Gippsland with nine now in Inat. This was a nicely marked individual in to the light from the garden.
Also nicely marked, Pantydia sparsa.
A Cup Moth, Doratifera oxleyi, female.
And caught flying up the sheet, click following images to enlarge.
Usually it is the males of Anthela acuta that come to the light, this is a female.
And a new garden record, Chrysolarentia lucidulata.
