Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Micro-moth

Posted by Isidro on 05-10-2007 10:05
#1
August 2007, pre-Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain.
Size about 7 mm.
Habitat: Mentha aquatica growing in wet border of a fir forest.

aycu04.webshots.com/image/27963/2006234636014226970_rs.jpg

thanks

Posted by Isidro on 08-10-2007 08:27
#2
Nobody? ShockSad

Posted by Isidro on 11-10-2007 16:31
#3
It's impossible that ANYBODY knew it...!! SadSadSad

Posted by Isidro on 14-10-2007 17:32
#4
HEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Sundew on 14-10-2007 21:54
#5
Sorry - I do not know it either. There are several lepidopteran families that contain small moths, and your animal is a bit out of focus (however, I also experienced that the autofocus of the camera has difficulties to focus on the wings, possibly because of the peculiar surface of a butterfly wing.) By googling, the only photo that bears a certain resemblance to your moth I found under http://home.scarl...hiidae.jpg, but it is most probably another species. The Gelechiidae family might fit, but I am absolutely no Lepidoptera expert Sad.
Regards, Sundew

Posted by Isidro on 15-10-2007 08:32
#6
Thanks Sundew!!!!!!! At least I will put it in Gelechiidae... I think that a species with distinctive wing-pattern, as this one, can be recognized easier than a monocolour moth...