well, there's was only one belgian person on board who knows something about moths and that's me. i never called myself an expert, i guess Dominique did but Dominique doesn't know anything bout moths so it is easy to be an expert in his eyes. i never said the Proxenus hospes wasn't one, other people came up with the idea of the moth being a probable Archanara dissoluta and without checking the book i said i could agree that it looked something like that. for your information, Proxenus hospes has only been seen once in Belgium, not by me, so forgive me for not knowing the species.
so please stay friendly... the internet is a small world... i came up to this thread by searching for more pictures of Callopistria latreillei. i also found the pic on
Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa, trying to find an ID for the mystery pelagic moth...
to give full credits, it must be said that it was Nigel from Kent who first pounted out that the moth had something of the jizz of Callopistria juventina... that was when we were still at sea.
and to re-instate my expert status: on board i re-identified a Rivula sericealis as the crambid migratory species Udea ferrugalis
grtz and see you next year at UP
Pieter