Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Idaea biselata or??, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Ken, I need your moth book, lol!

I have two more Wave moths which look to be the same moth, one is darker than the other. They look in many ways like the Small Fan-footed Wave Idaea biselata but the tail sticks out the bottom of the wings, and mine have one dot on the wings where most I see have two.

http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=125

I found another, Idaea typicata which looks closer, with the exception that the two middle wavy bands look closer together than on mine.

(edited to say the leps.it link reverted back to I. biselata, but I. typicata is there)

http://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/IdaeaBisel.htm

Idaea typicata is not listed on the ukmoths site,

http://ukmoths.org.uk/search.php?entry=Idaea

But it is close according to the map shown here:

http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/dit...

Just across the English Channel!

http://www.lepidoptera.pl/show.php?ID=5489&country=XX

A 'UK google' brought up one site of Idea world species,

http://test.sp2000.org/browse_taxa.php?path=0,1,164,344,749,...

With the I. typicata link having a link to the NHM:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projec...

Maybe not a lot of use!

Taken on 29th July






This message was edited Oct 6, 2008 3:04 PM