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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Five-lobed Plume Moths (Pterophorinae) » Platyptiliini » Gillmeria » Alberta Pale Plume Moth - Hodges#6116 (Gillmeria albertae)
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White flying insect - - Gillmeria albertae
Copyright © 2013 dgluckman

White flying insect - - Gillmeria albertae
Logan Pass Visitor's Center, Glacier National Park County, Montana, USA
August 18, 2013
Size: 1" wingtip to wingtip
This flying insect moved from plant to plant in a high wind and seemed to settle down on low plants as one would expect.
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Contributed by dgluckman on 25 August, 2013 - 10:08pm
Last updated 3 September, 2013 - 1:22pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Maury J. Heiman, 3 September, 2013 - 1:22pm login or register to post comments

Looks Like 6116 - Gillmeria albertae
ID suggested by Debbie Matthews, to whom I sent the photograph.

Please contact me at BPatter789@aol.com regarding permission to display on Plates at Moth Photographers Group selected photos of moths that you post here at BugGuide. Thanks, B.P.
… Bob Patterson, 3 September, 2013 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

plume moth
not sure of the species..no expert here!
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