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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 15:16:11 GMT
 Extinct in Britain for a century, the Union Rustic, Pabulatrix pabulatricula was last seen in 1919, these examples are from Wharncliffe wood Sheffield South Yorkshire 1875. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 15:18:28 GMT
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Post by nomad on Feb 4, 2017 16:50:10 GMT
Good specimens. Rare in collections. I wondered why it became extinct, must have been some sort of habitat change. Here are a couple of museum specimens I photographed.   |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 20:19:33 GMT
Is that Barnsley?
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Post by nomad on Feb 4, 2017 21:44:22 GMT
Yes, Barnsley. I also have an image of a specimen labelled Doncaster.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 21:48:37 GMT
I knew it was the hotbed of world entomology.
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Post by nomad on Feb 4, 2017 22:02:26 GMT
Ha ha. Well if it were not for these specimens, and their data and their collectors with their records, who would have heard of Pabulatrix pabulatricula. You always here of dispar and arion but no one mentions pabulatricula.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 22:22:52 GMT
No I doubt our friends in high places would give it a second glance as it would not grab any headlines being a small brown job.
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