Lesser Common Rustic (Mesapamea didyma) - iMoths


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Lesser Common Rustic
Mesapamea didyma (Esper, 1788)
Noctuidae : Xyleninae

2343a / 73.170

Photo © Melissa Banthorpe, male gendet, Lower Stondon 28/07/2008

Similar Bedfordshire Species
Common Rustic Mesapamea secalis

Small Clouded Brindle
Apamea unanimis

Bedfordshire status
Uncommon resident

Determination by Genitalia Examination (gen. det.) Required

Recorded in 11 (50%) of 22 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1975.
Last Recorded in 2023.

Latest 5 Records
Date	#	VC	10k Area
10/07/2023	1	30	TL14 - Biggleswade (West), Sandy
06/08/2021	1	30	SP93 - Woburn
11/08/2020	1	30	TL12 - Luton (East), Pegsdon Hills
21/07/2020	1	30	TL14 - Biggleswade (West), Sandy
01/08/2017	1	30	SP92 - Leighton Buzzard, Totternhoe

Further info: Mesapamea didyma