Well … they look like Mossie legs on this bug … but who knows. S/he was quite a pretty thing and I found it flying around the inside of my car.
So distracted was I the by the flying bug that I eventually had to pull over and take a photo before allowing for an escape route through the sunroof. If I had to say it had a colour, I’d say it’s unusual wings and body were tortoiseshell and its legs brown and creamy white stripes. It could probably have stood on a 10 pence piece with maybe only the wings hanging over the circumference.
Again, I can’t find it in my insect book. Any clues anyone, as to what it might be?
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I’ve seen a few of those recently Sarah… their very straight wings make them look a bit like a crucifix from above I thought. No idea what it is though, sorry!
Hi there, Tom, nice to hear from you, hope you are keeping well. A friend of mine has suggested that it is from the moth family. It’s one of the plume moths in the micro-lepidoptera. Actually it flew a little bit like a moth, even though it looks nothing like it.
Hi Sarah, I’ve checked a few images and it looks like a Tamarisk Plume moth Agdistis tamaricis. There is a pic here, but it’s not great.
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=5643
Waiting to hear back from the man who should know
Amblyptillia acanthadactyla and no apparant common English name
Hi there Steve, you’ve found it! There are some images on this page: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1497and also a short history of it. Looking at the wing tips, I think it was the Amblyptillia punctidactyla. Thanks for solving yet another bug mystery!
That’s a grey looking species and the one you photographed is much warmer looking. So it’s acanthadactyla rather than punctidactyla and was unknown in Yorkshire before 1980.
I thought the difference was the wing tips … one are feathery the other are not … did you see the picture here: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=4041
Yes I saw that Sarah and agree with you about the tip, all I can add is that 2 independant “experts” agree it’s acanthadactyla
Whatever it is, it’s a nice little thing
I saw one & I think it is still in my room. I have a Red-eared slider turtle tank & the little bug was between the back glass & my wall, just hanging out in my bed room. Ive never seen a moth like this, its so amazing…how rare are these moths? How did it get in my room? Amazing little bug!!! God is so creative.