Any lepidopterists out there who might identify this beast?

no you are all wrong its a wife scarier and is also known in cypress as a nighttimehairtanglingdoodlebugthing.

the he wife has just seen it and recalls we called it a shellyback monster when we where invaded buy them in akrotiri cypress,

bob.
 
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We know them as mitchamdore or maybugs, apparently they are heathland insects, we have Newmarket heath near and this time of year they emerge from the ground l presume to breed, there certainly seems to be a few around mostly at dusk.
 
Mate lost his eye to one of these. 60mph on bike and it flew into his eye as he had the visor up, after splatting one a minute or so earlier
 
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