Richard South

Name: The Moths of the British Isles Second Series — Zygænidæ
Author: Richard South

The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

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“The Moths of the British Isles Second Series — Zygænidæ”, published in 1909, is a work by Richard South. It explores elements such as species, trifolii and caterpillar.

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ Wherever colonies of two of the kind exist within visiting distance of each other, there, it appears, we may reasonably expect to find hybrids.
From a number of cocoons collected in a Yorkshire locality for loniceræ, I reared, in 1907, a good many examples of that species, and also about a dozen six-spot specimens, which agree in colour with filipendulæ, but they have the vein-interrupted sixth spot and broad border to hind wings, as in hippocrepidis.
The caterpillar (Plate 145, Fig. 4) is greenish, with black markings and some yellow spots, the latter chiefly on the hind edges of the rings. ”

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ Of the three species occurring in Britain this is slightly the larger, at least in the male. The fore wings are green, sometimes with a slightly golden sheen; fringes, greyish. The male is best distinguished from statices by its more slender body, and by the pectinated and rather pointed antennæ. The female is a good deal smaller than the male; the antennæ are simple, and somewhat thread-like, compared with those of the females of statices and geryon. (Plate 147, Figs. 6 ♂, 7 ♀.)
The caterpillar is green, with the raised spots inclining to bluish ”

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ The chief differences are in the rather longer fore wings and the more pointed tips of the hind pair; the borders of the hind wings are often narrower. In a broad way, it may be stated that the general tone of colour in the male of loniceræ is bluer than that of trifolii. The union of any two or more spots is rarely seen in this species in Britain, but specimens with all the spots joined together have certainly been noted. ”

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ The moth, which is out in late June and in July, occurs in woods and plantations; also said to be found in meadows, and on rough waste ground, as well as in marshes and salterns. The distribution is much as in the last species, but it is plentiful in East Yorkshire, and the range extends to Cumberland and Northumberland.
Six-spot Burnet (Zygæna filipendulæ) .
This species (Plate 147, Figs. 3-5) is the most generally common of our Burnets. Perhaps the most frequent form of variation in the spots of the fore wings is that in which the outer pair run together, and so form a blotch ”

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ There does not seem, however, to be any reason to suppose that the occurrence of either species in Britain could be other than accidental.
The Transparent Burnet (Zygæna purpuralis) .
Two Welsh specimens are depicted on Plate 146, Figs. 1 and 2; these are of the typical form. A rare aberration has the spots and the hind wings more or less suffused with blackish (ab. obscura, Tutt) , but a still rarer variety has the crimson of spots and hind wings replaced by yellow (ab. lutescens, Tutt) . ”

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ The caterpillar (Plate 145, Fig. 1) is dark green inclining to olive above and paler below; the spots are black (outer row) and yellow (inner row) ; the line along the back is obscure whitish; hairs, whitish. It feeds on thyme and burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella) . Trifolium and Lotus have also been given among other food plants. In late summer, and after hibernation, in the spring. The moth flies in June, and is locally common in Ireland (Clare and Galway) , Wales (Abersoch) , and Scotland (Oban, Loch Etive) . ”

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Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles Second Series… (1909)

“ It occurs, locally, in meadows, frequently damp ones, where there is plenty of ragged-robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) , the blossoms of which plant it seems to prefer to all others.
Widely distributed over England, but in Wales only recorded from Capel Curig and Barmouth, in the north of that country (1900) . In Scotland its range extends to Moray; and in Ireland it is found in counties Wicklow, Cork, Clare, Westmeath, Monaghan, Sligo, and Galway. ”

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