Little one for ID - Bucharest, Romania (2 Viewers)

Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

• Mar 18, 2008

• #1

Please help me to ID this small butterfly. Pic taken on March 15th in a park in Bucharest.
Thank you.

Cristian

 

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Johnny Allan

Dip or Glory

• Mar 18, 2008

• #2

Can't help with the ID but it looks like a moth of some sort.

Johnny Allan

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Mar 18, 2008

• #3

Hi, Johnny, don't often meet you in this setting!
I'm probably way off target but I think it could be a forester, possibly scarce forester, Jordanita globulariae (=Adscita globulariae) (Hübner, 1793)
Ken

 

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black52bird

Registered User

• Mar 18, 2008

• #4

Surreybirder said:

Hi, Johnny, don't often meet you in this setting!
I'm probably way off target but I think it could be a forester, possibly scarce forester, Jordanita globulariae (=Adscita globulariae) (Hübner, 1793)
Ken

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Sorry, Ken, but I don't think that's right, for a number of reasons: wing shape, uppers colour, unders colour, form of antennae, June-July flight season (even given the more southerly latitude)
I just trawled the French and Hungarian books and can't find a macro moth with the combinations this has, which isn't to say it's not a macro.....but it looks very similar to some Pyralids in form (e.g. Orthopygia glaucinalis).
But I may be way off target, too.............. Perhaps Harri can tell us?
David

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Mar 19, 2008

• #5

David,
You're probably right that I'm wrong but I don't think it's glaucinalis. Have a look at:
http://www.moths-of-holme.info/images/micro_moths_large/1415_orthopygia_glaucinalis.jpg

 

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black52bird

Registered User

• Mar 19, 2008

• #6

Surreybirder said:

David,
You're probably right that I'm wrong but I don't think it's glaucinalis. Have a look at:
http://www.moths-of-holme.info/images/micro_moths_large/1415_orthopygia_glaucinalis.jpg

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No Ken - it's definitely not glaucinalis - that's one of the few moths I claim to kow very well as I collect it very often here in BP!! Sorry if my prose wasn't clear...I meant it is the same shape as some Pyralids, for example glaucinalis, rather than I thought that's what it was!! (also has a similar ground colour, but lacks the cross-bars on the wings, and anyway, glaucinalis doesn't have a yellow underwing!!)

I'll try and be clearer next time!!

Best

David

 

hjalava

Well-known member

• Mar 19, 2008

• #7

I don't know many Southern European moths but I'll ask from another forum.

 

Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

• Mar 19, 2008

• #8

Hi everybody,

From two Romanian sources came this ID: Lythria purpuraria. Any other opinion? Maybe some comments...

Thank you

Cristian

 

hjalava

Well-known member

• Mar 19, 2008

• #9

The Finnish experts' comments were that the moth is Lythria cruentaria.

 

Last edited: Mar 19, 2008