Five-spot Burnets

A couple of recent posts revived my interest in the two species Z. trifolii and Z. lonicerae. I’ve cobbled this together from various sources (including the photos):


I noted several inconsistencies. At least one site (Cambs Moths) said that genital dissection was needed, whilst other sites said that there was no discernable difference between the two in that respect.
All comments welcomed.

My internet connection is behaving oddly. Could someone please confirm they can see this post?

I can see your post.

Thanks - really odd behaviour last night, but in the local ‘meeja’ others were complaining of outages too.

I think there was a period yesterday, about that time, when the Internet itself was drunk, staggering around and around and ar…