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Pseudopostega auritella
Checklist Number05.003 [B&F: 0120]
Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification
Classification
| Family: | Opostegidae |
| Subfamily: | Oposteginae |
| Genus: | Pseudopostega |
| Species: | auritella |
| Authority: | (Hübner, [1813]) |
A rare but fairly distinctive species, distinguished from the more common P. crepusculella by the absence of a partial fascia on the costa. Restricted to a very few sites in the fens and broads of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, until the surprise finding of a colony at Orlestone, Kent in 2020 (Boothroyd, B in Atropos: 66).
