Tuesday 22 December 2020
New Species - Micropterix calthella
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Like a researcher discovering something in the museum archives I have identified a micromoth from a four year old photograph. I was looking at some photos I had taken of Spring Sedge in May 2016 and I spotted a couple of micromoths which I was able to identify as Micropterix calthella (no English name) using my two field guides. The Micropterididae are the only moths with chewing mouthparts and have been around for 100 million years as they evolved in tandem with flowering plants.
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