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24-03-2009, 07:36 PM
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| | | Tiny, furry white moth
Northants garden, 24th March 09. Wall ivy.
Length ~1.75mm.
Well I don't know for sure that this is a moth but it's got two pair of wings and it looks like a moth.....
So help with identification appreciated. 
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24-03-2009, 10:38 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny, furry white moth
It's a great shot of a very unusual-looking moth-fly, family Psychodidae. I'll give the species some thought... |
24-03-2009, 11:22 PM
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| | | Re: Tiny, furry white moth
Jason - Moth-flies are small hairy-winged flies (diptera). Now I'm pretty sure that this insect has two pair of wings (see left wings in pic). If I'm right then it can't be a fly (diptera) as they only have a single pair of wings. Take a look at the pic and see what you think....
Here's another pic that shows the wing pair more clearly. 
Bruce
Last edited by Bruce Williams; 24-03-2009 at 11:31 PM.
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25-03-2009, 12:01 AM
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| | | Re: Tiny, furry white moth
Quite right there Bruce, my mistake. Whilst the first pic only really shows one pair the second as you say shows two. It isn't a moth but a whitefly - I should have seen that first-off! As with most insects there is always one generic common term covering several species... and I don't doubt to get it to that level would require looking at under a microscope for wing venation or examination of genetalia! There is no UK recording scheme as far as I know, either.
I would therefor say it's a whitefly, a hemipteran of the family Aleyrodidae - unless anyone else are comfortable with taking this one further!
I throw down the gauntlet...
Last edited by Jason Green; 25-03-2009 at 12:04 AM.
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25-03-2009, 10:15 AM
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| | | Re: Tiny, furry white moth
Thanks Jason!
Wow - I would never have thought that this was a Hemipteran, so your help with identification was invaluable. You are right of course.....and on closer examination of some lateral images (and a face-on) of this same insect I can make out that it does indeed possess a rostrum.
Interestingly from the face-on pic you can see that it also has quite large bug-like eyes.
Bruce
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