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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 05, 2008

I thought it could be a moth because of its antennae and its woolly haired body. I often find it inside the house, specially in the bathroom. Its size is appr. 3mm.

I also often find it outside;
here it's sitting on the wall on my terrace;


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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 05, 2008

With the help of a torch I managed to get a reasonable picture of it sitting on the tiles of the bathroom.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Oct 05, 2008

It' s actually a Moth Fly, and my camera can't take pics of them as big as that!

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=moth%20fly&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Oct 05, 2008

Family Psychodidae, Clogmia albipunctata


http://64.191.19.182/photogallery.php?album_id=83

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 05, 2008

I had also been searching and thought it could be Psychoda alternata, but now that I see the picture of the Diptera-site it looks the closest to mine.


These are links to Psychoda alternata;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=15079677

on this site the image looks exactly like mine but got identified as being Psychoda alternata as far as I understood it ..

http://www.naturamediterraneo.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15471

But I'm sure the Diptera site is more reliable, so I'll mark it as solved.
Thanks a lot wallaby!

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