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Micromoth - Tineidae (Clothes Moths)

Micromoth - Tineidae (Clothes Moths)
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA
March 3, 2015
Size: Length 12mm
At outdoor light. I can't figure out this one, but that doesn't mean much: short upturned palps (see linked image), long antennae, extended proboscis and actually not very "micro." I thought it might perhaps be a clothes or scavenger moth: I'm treading on thin ice.

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Moved
Moved from Haplotinea.

The elusive ID
Thank you, Robert, for moving this guy (and yours) up a notch, but Haplotinea has only a single representative in North America, Terry Harrison's suggested H. insectella. Interestingly, Setomorpha rutella, which was picked by Ken for his similar looking moth, appears to be a very close relative according to this new checklist. As to my moth, Megan Milton of BOLD wrote that it and its few close matches “are very distant from other Tineidae, so it’s an interesting group.” In the checklist, Haplotinea (like Setomorpha) is in fact a very early Tineidae moth. So, there we are!

 
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Moved tentatively to Haplotinea sp.
Moved from Clothes Moths.

Based on Terry Harrison's comment here

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Tineidae
This is definitely a tineid; beyond that, my best guess would be Haplotinea insectella.

 
Yes, a tineid
Thank you, Terry, for finding my posts so soon and commenting on it. I actually had gotten onto the same track after discovering in Ken Childs' album an image of a similar moth that he suggested might be #0428 Setomorpha rutella, posted in BugGuide here. I still have the moth - any interest?
EDIT: Terry was so kind to offer doing a genital analysis but warned that it would work well only with males. I sent a ventral picture and he decided that it was a female. My last resort was BOLD but it could only confirm that the moth is a tineid.

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