just had this moth come up. Never seen it before either
Kennedyh another ID please
pic with wings closed. funny he just snaps them shut
That took a bit of finding. It is in the large family of Noctuidae and is one of the genus Catocala http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/catocalinae/catocala/index.html
containing species known as Red Underwings, Orange Underwings and Yellow Underwings. I think your moth could be Catocala muliercula http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps/webpages/noctuidae2/Camuliercula.htm
http://snapper.bio.umass.edu/kunkel/Moths/vermes/muliercula.jpg
This message was edited Jul 10, 2005 8:29 AM
WTG Kennedyh that is exactly it in the first link under the name you gave. Wow you are good. I didn't even know where to begin to look
After several failed attempts, I tracked it down by looking in a book I have with illustrations of all the English Moths. I didn't find it there, but I found close relatives and that gave me a pretty good idea of what genus to look at on the American moth sites and it turned up trumps.