Forum Entomologi Italiani

Aiuto ID!
Grazie!

Hi Isidro, the Arctiinae group in Spain is very difficult, with many different species. Your moth has some resemblance to the mainly coastal and northern species Eilema lutarella, but it is probably necessary to retain a specimen for certainity. There is an excellent book by Ullastre, Vilà and Ortiz just on this group. Matthew

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Matthew Gandy
http://lepidopteragallery.org/index.php

Thanks a lot Matthew! I even never heard about that species. Unfortunately I don't remember where I took the photo, probably in the Pyrenees.

Hi Isidro, can you remember at least when you took it? (checking the date of you photo maybe? )

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Maura
(Mitakuye oyasin)

I tried it, but there is a problem: my computer was broken in january 2012 and as a result of that, appart from loose a lot of photos that I made in autumn, I could not recover more than the security copy made in summer, and when I recovered this copy, all the photos loose the data and all said in "Properties" to be taken in january 2012.