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I am always very wary as County Recorder when I get records of those species which are difficult to separate without dissection. We as recorders must always be aware that certain species cannot be done by eye alone. the most common being the following. Grey and dark daggers though males can be done on site with a hand lens. The minors such as marbled, tawney marbled cannot be done by wing markings. Rosy Minors can also fit into this catagory though those with a very vivid flush of red are fairly certain. There are others and the group of ear moths come into this catagaory. I enclose pictures of large ears and ear moths all dissected to sort them out. we were hoping for Saltern ears but it was not to be.
Here they are.

The tiny differences in the ear markings are irrelevant. Interesting though all the females had brown discal spots but that was just a fluke

So if you have some don't knows in this or the other groups get them to me so I can dissect them.