A calm cool night saw the light shining again to check out more autumn flying moths from the garden, some images will enlarge. As usual Crypsiphona ocultaria were early arrivals.

Hypobapta diffundens is more usual so it was good to get Hypobapta tachyhalotaria.

Two Thalaina species, Thalaina clara,

And Thalaina selenaea.

Another Geometrid, the Lucerne Looper, Zermizinga sinuata, male, females are wingless.

A Lasiocampid, Paraguda nasuta.

A Cossid, last recorded here in 2013, Zyganisus propedia.

The Autumn Gum Moth, Mnesampela privata,

Some Noctuids, Rhapsa suscitatalis,

And Diatenes gerula, preferring to stay on the ground.

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.