Guernsey - noted as not common, 2 specimens taken [dates not given], W.A. Luff, 1890b(l):168 {recorded as 

 Himera pennaria } . 



Guernsey - specimens taken [dates not given], Rev. F.E. Lowe; W.A. Luff, 1890b(l):168 {recorded as Himera 

 pennaria } . 



Jersey - specimens taken, 30.x.-23.xi.l903, G.B. Coney, 1904(37):129 {recorded as Himera pennaria}; & W.A. 



Luff, 1909b(5):489 {recorded as Himeria [sic] pennaria, L. }. 

 Guernsey - 2 specimens taken at light in 1904, Rev. F.E. Lowe; W.A. Luff, 1905(4):319 {recorded as Himera 



pennaria}. 



Jersey - noted as not common, but odd specimens have been taken in most years at light in October and November, 



A.C. Halliwell, 1937a(13):149 {recorded as Himera pennaria}. 

 Guernsey - 1 specimen taken at lighted window, 12.xii.1958, C.J. Shayer, 1959a(16):321. 



Guernsey - specimens taken at light in St. Peter Port, Trinity Cottages, 3.xi.l996, J. Hooper; 1 in St. Martin, Burnt 



Lane, Rothamsted trap, 27.xi.1996, W. Angell; R.A. Austin, 1997:24. 

 Guernsey - 1 specimen taken in St. Pierre du Bois, La Broderie, 27.xi.1998, P.D.M. Costen; 4 in St. Martin, Burnt 



Lane, Rothamsted trap, 18.x.-14.xii.l998, W. Angell; [pers. comm. from Austin database]. 

 Guernsey - 2 specimens seen in St. Martin, Burnt Lane, Rothamsted trap, 24.X.& 8.xi. 1 999, W. Angell; 1 in St. 



Saviour, 12.xi.1999, P.D.M. Costen; 5 in St. Pierre du Bois, La Broderie, 23., 27.& 29.xi.L999, P.D.M. 



Costen; [pers. comm. from Austin database]. 

 Sark - 1 specimen taken at Maricel, 19.xi.2003, H.E. Bull; 1 at Le Clos Bourel, 21.xi.2003, M.J. Bull, [BMNH]. 



ANGERONA Duponchel, 1829 



ANGERONIA; misspelling 

 THERA; sensu Peet, 1981 



prunaria (Linnaeus, 1758) Orange Moth 



Guernsey - listed by Miss Wilkinson, in, D.T. Ansted & R.G. Latham, 1862; & 1865:226. 



Guernsey - noted as frequent, earliest capture 6. vi. [ 1 873?], W.A. Luff, 1873a(6):354. 



Guernsey - noted as not uncommon in June, W.A. Luff, 1890b(l):168; & R.A. Austin, 1993(23):234. 



Guernsey - noted as common each January, SS fly at dusk, previously overlooked, 1980, T.N.D. Peet, 



1981(20):584 {recorded as Thera prunaria}. 

 Guernsey - 1 specimen taken at light in St. Martin, Moulin Huet, 4.vii,1992, G. & F. Higgs; incorrectly stated as 



being the first record since noted in 1889, R.A. Austin, 1993(23):234. 

 Jersey - 1 specimen taken in Grouville, the Mont Orgueil floodlights, 2.vii. 1994, R.V.M. Burrow; [claimed to be the 



2nd record in Jersey, but no previous record has been published] R. & M.L. Long, 1995(26):319 {recorded 



as Angeronia [sic] prunaria}. 



PHIGALIA Duponchel, 1829 



pilosaria ([Denis & Schiffermuller], 1775) Pale Brindled Beauty 



pedaria (Fabricius, 1787) 



Jersey - 1 specimen taken, 26.ii.1903, G.B. Coney, 1904(37): 129 {recorded as Phigalia pedaria}; & W.A. Luff, 

 1909b(5):489 {recorded as Phigalia pilosaria, Hb.}; A.C. Halliwell, 1937 a(13):150 {recorded as Phigalia 

 pedaria}. 



LYCIA Hiibner, [1825] 



BISTON; sensu Johnson & Piquet, 1862 

 hirtaria (Clerck, 1759) Brindled Beauty 



Jersey - listed by F.P. Johnson & F.G. Piquet, in, D.T. Ansted & R.G. Latham, 1862; & 1865:226 {recorded as 



Biston hirtaria}. 



Guernsey - 1 specimen taken in St. Pierre du Bois, m/v light at Claire Mare, 20.iv.1985, P.D.M. Costen; T.N.D. 

 Peet, 1986(21 ):621. 



BISTON Leach, [1815] 



PACHYS Hiibner, 1822 

 AMPHIDASIS Treitschke, 1825 



AMPHIDASYS Sodoffsky, 1837, unjustified emendation 



AMPHYDASIS; misspelling 

 strataria (Hufnagel, 1767) Oak Beauty 



prodromaria ([Denis & Schiffermiiller], 1775) 

 Jersey - listed by F.P. Johnson & F.G. Piquet, in, D.T. Ansted & R.G. Latham, 1862; & 1865:226 {recorded as 



Amphidasis prodromaria and as Biston prodromaria}; & W.A. Luff, 1909b(5):489 {recorded as 



Amphidasys prodromaria, Schiff. } ; A.C. Halliwell, 1937a(13):150 {recorded as Pachys strataria}. 



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