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Photo by Les Catchick
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Field Notes

Description:

A small colourful day-flying moth.

Habitat:

In a small patch of original vegetation at the edge of a town in a remote area. The river was to one side a few metres away and cultivated land was just a metre away on the other side.

Notes:

The location given the internet and will be a few miles from the exact spot the moth was seen. It was an area called Buena Vista I believe.
ID suggestions so far:
probably genus Hemerophila or Ornarantia
probably from the family Choreutidae

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (7)

Thanks Sukanya and Pam. Hemerophila is one of two 'families' with similarities but I have not found this exact moth. Have you seen yours Pam since your earlier comment? I have recently uploaded another probable metalmark moth with no exact ID also taken in Colombia.
I saw the same one in Peru, Les...
Take a look. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/423746009
Thanks Pam. There was another in that area that is also possibly a metalmark moth.
Thanks. I had been told "A metalmark moth, probably genus Hemerophila or Ornarantia" and found a Hemerophila one that looks related to me, but I really have little grasp of IDs and often get them wrong.
I''m guessing this is a metalmark moth from the family Choreutidae.

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