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Photo#783114
Clothes Moth

Clothes Moth
Ballston Lake , Saratoga County, New York, USA
May 30, 2013
Size: 7 mm long
Attracted to porch light. ID help appreciated.

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Clothes Moth Clothes Moth

Moved
Moved from Clothes Moths.

Moved
Moved from Meessiinae.

Moved
Moved from Clothes Moths.

Moved
Moved from Twirler Moths.

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Thanks to both of you for the comments/criticism. It helps me look at things with different eyes. Should I move this back to Moths?

 
I'd bet it's a tineid
Something along these lines (but not exactly):

[Edit: I hadn't seen the exchange below when I added this comment, but I guess it means all three of us thought the same thing.]

 
Stenoptinea
Charley, the moth you referenced looks similar to a moth that I boldly placed in Stenoptinea without receiving comment from an authority on microleps (not something I do very often). Of course, ID verification is always welcome!

 
Great Eye!
How nice that we are all on the same page.

Moved
Moved from Moths.

This is a hard one because of the fuzziness of the palps and the sheen, but I think it might be . Not an ID. See what you think. At least it belongs in the family.

 
Hmmm
Thanks for your comment. I agree that it bears some resemblance to D. juncidella, although most of the specimens pictured have a rust colored head. You may very well be right, but my opinion isn't worth a hill of beans.

 
I agree that the head color is wrong
Your moth also doesn't have the prominent palps of Dichomeris. In fact, I can't see the palps at all, which makes me wonder if it is even a gelechiid, although that's what I would have guessed based on the wing pattern.

 
Tineidae?
I was thinking it might be in the Tineidae family, but that's just a guess.

 
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Carl, Tineidae is where I started my search. I have been moving a lot of "old" submissions from Moths to Family, Genus or Species, so I have spent a lot of time in a concentrated period scrolling through the MPG early micro moths. I thought I remembered seeing something similar, but could not find it, so I went to Gelechiidae thinking it was something chionodes, but none of them had the clear yellow spots. That is when I finally went through the dichlomeris and I thought occasionally their palps looked fuzzy in the pictures. Sorry for all the confusion. I clearly should have just let it alone!

 
humble pie
It's fun to try to identify the insects I photograph, but when I make suggestions as to what they might be I usually end up with egg on my face. My advice is to keep making suggestions, but let the experts move things around.

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