id butterfly or moth

[barquar]

Hi Spotted a small butterfly or moth Orange on both wings with black along top edge off top wing, no other markings, size small about the size off a twopence peice or there about. can anyone help identify it please, looked through loads off photos cant find it.

[DaiTheDragon]

Could be an Orange Tip Butterfly.

Dai

[barquar]

no not orange tip as this was bright orange all over with jet black on the top edge off upper wing. real mystery

[GuyF]

I can't find any pictures anywhere because I think they're very rare, but it could be a form of Cinnabar Moth where the wings are pure orangey red with a black front margin.
Someone may know where to find a picture of one of these Cinnabar Moths, otherwise I'll have to scan in a picture from the waring moth book.
Guy

[goosey]

Originally Posted by barquar

no not orange tip as this was bright orange all over with jet black on the top edge off upper wing. real mystery

Hi could it be the Lycaena hippothoe,The Purple edged Copper? or Lycaena virgaureae Scarce copper?I dont have link sorry.

[barquar]

hi to both replies, will look up the names you sugested.The shape off it was a more like a butterfly, It came out off some ivy that is growing up an old tree stump which is about 3ft high and a bech hedge behind it
,My husband caught the tree stump and out it flew,It was amazing the orange on both wings with the jet black along the top edge off the upper wing no other markings. just orange and black.
barquar

[Oscar2006]

Why not Small Copper?

[barquar]

Hi looked up the cinaar moth, purple edge copper,scarce copper, it is not any off those, sorry to say,
The best way to describe it is like an Orange tip, But were that one is white mine was orange with a black on upper wing edge only, the black edge was not as deep as the orange on the the orange tip.
barquar

[goosey]

Ok, what about one of the Skippers then?

[barquar]

thanks goosey but its not any off the skippers, looks like its one i shall never no what its id is.
barquar