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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Plume Moths (Pterophoroidea) » Plume Moths (Pterophoridae) » Pterophorinae » Platyptiliini » Geina » buscki or tenuidactylus (Geina buscki or tenuidactylus)
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mystery dipteran? - Geina
Copyright © 2007 J.R. Jones

mystery dipteran? - Geina
Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA
June 16, 2004
Size: TL approximately 1.5-2 cm
Found on the side of a house in Florence, Alabama, on a hot afternoon in June 2004, but I never got around to sending in the pic. Just happened to be looking around at some bugs tonight, and decided to finally post for the first time. Any ideas?
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Contributed by J.R. Jones on 18 February, 2007 - 11:00pm
Last updated 9 May, 2009 - 8:05pm

Moved
Moved from Geina.
… john and jane balaban, 9 May, 2009 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Platyptiliini.
… john and jane balaban, 9 May, 2009 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

Geina tenuidactyla or G. busc
Geina tenuidactyla or G. buscki
… Deborah Matthews, 9 May, 2009 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Plume Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 22 June, 2007 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 22 June, 2007 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

Pyrgotidae?
I've been digging around a bit, and the closest match I've found so far has been Pyrgotidae. Is that even remotely close?
… J.R. Jones, 18 February, 2007 - 11:16pm login or register to post comments

 
plume moth
Try looking here. Someone else might know what species this is.
… Joyce Gross, 18 February, 2007 - 11:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Aha, Pterophoridae!
Thanks, Joyce! I didn't expect a response so soon, but I just happened to run across the Pterophoridae in a used copy (acquired today!) of Borror and DeLong's (1964) An Introduction to the Study of Insects right before I got your post. Looks a lot like Amblyptilia or Geina. Anyone have any other suggestions?
… J.R. Jones, 19 February, 2007 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

 
Sometimes it's just a couple minutes.
Often it's a race to see who can provide the ID first. Many times a bugguider posts their response while another is still typing or creating links. Welcome to bugguide by the way :-)
… Jim McClarin, 19 February, 2007 - 1:49am login or register to post comments

 
It looks alot like Geina tenu
It looks alot like Geina tenuidactyla - Himmelman's Plume Moth
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 20 February, 2007 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks to all...
Thanks, everyone for the warm welcome, and helpful IDs. I've always liked insects, but am just now starting to get a lot more serious about entomology. I saw my first Ichneumonidae of the year tonight! Maybe I'll catch some more on the porch tomorrow evening, and try to get some images, though there definitely doesn't seem to be a shortage of Ich images here. Hopefully I can get a much nicer camera sometime soon...insect photography seems like lots of fun!
… J.R. Jones, 21 February, 2007 - 1:26am login or register to post comments

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