If I have identified it correctly, this is a moth I wasn't aware of. Tony's updated moths of Ceredigion shows very few records in the county when I was trapping in the late1980's, though is is apparently more commonly recorded now. I don't know why I gave it a second look, I wonder how many I have recorded as Small Wainscot in the past, though seeing the two side by side they are not at all alike.
Only 10 county records for Small Rufous before 2000, 9 of them in the Dyfi area and 1 near Cors Caron in 1995.
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