Saturday 19 September 2015

New Species - Twenty Plume Moth

It can be disheartening to try and identify a micro moth but this tiny one that turned up inside the house was so distinctive under a hand lens that I gave it a go. It took very little time to id this as a Twenty Plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla) which strangely seems to have twelve plumes (six on each wing) rather than twenty.

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