There have been two new and confirmed species of moth for Derbyshire and VC57 during this week commencing 6th October 2025. First of all a Macro Moth, Dotted Border Wave which was recorded from a garden moth trap at Dronfield Woodhouse on 7th August 2020 by Andrew Williamson. It was discovered whilst I was verifying Andrews old moth records that he had kindly uploaded to the iRecord database. Fortunately Andrew had photographed the individual and sent me a copy. After circulating the image with the recording team, we were all in agreement with the identification. A superb record of a very scarce species across Britain, let alone in land-locked Derbyshire. (There remains an unconfirmed record of Dotted Border Wave, from 2016, on iRecord which has never been verified due to lack of supporting data).
The second record was of a micro moth, Nephopterix angustella, Spindle Knot-horn, recorded by Alan Kydd from Hathersage on 18th August 2025. Fortunately Alan was also ble to provided photographs to support his record and I was able to confirm the ID and circulated the image around the recording team for the required second opinion. This Pyralid moth showed the characteristic blackish band of scale tufts at about a third distance from its head and bordered by a cross-line edged reddish and blackish, along with a narrow greyish forewing, variably speckled with reddish-brown and whitish flecks.
