Image of Geina sheppardi Landry 1989

Description:

"The day before, I had been thrilled to lure a plume moth (a semi-mythical creature heretofore seen only on Flickr) to my porch light. Well, then I went for a dusk walk with Rick around the native plant area of the park a couple of blocks from our house. The moth pickin's were actually rather slim, until I kicked these up from some long grass & they landed in the tree above. They posed very nicely for a photo shoot (perhaps their so-called 'minds' were elsewhere) -- posted here are a front view (above) & a side view, where you can see that they are dangling by the front legs of the top one. Wingspan (top one) 17 mm. The one seen on my porch was a different species, the Morning-glory Plume Moth (Emmelina monodactyla) -- longer, thinner, duller wings. Plume moths are not easy to ID by photo alone (translation: ""I have no clue what the field marks are""). These have been ID'ed by expert Debbie Matthews as 6091.1, Geina sheppardi. Thank you to Debbie & to Bob Patterson at MPG."