Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Psychodidae: Lepiseodina latipennis

Posted by ESant on 08-10-2020 20:11
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Thank you. I compared the description with this photo and another one I took at another specimen on May 2nd 2020 in Bazzano (AQ), Italy. I tried to look for similarities, but I'm no expert and I probably interpreted some things wrong, however, the features that in my opinion match are:

-Tufts of white hair at the base of the wing. (Ciuffi di peli bianchi […] alla base dell'ala).
-A large tuft of white hair at the tip of the subcosta (un grande ciuffo all'estremità della subcosta).
-(...) before the tip of cu1b, where there is a big tuft of white hair similar to the one on the subcosta. ([…] prima dell'estremità di cu1b, dove vi è un ciuffo grande simile a quello sulla subcosta).
-White fringe of the tip of r2 to the tip of cu1b and between cu1b and a, not pure white in colour. (Frangia alare bianca dell'estremità di r2 all'estremità di cu1b, e poi fra cu1b ed a, peraltro di un bianco non completamente puro.).

I'm not so sure of all the other features regarding the habitus and the wing venation because from the picture I wasn't able to read well the subscripts of the wing veins' names.

The last feature that seems to match comes from the Antennae description: segments of the flagellum of decreasing size towards the tip and "flask-shaped" (Articoli del flagello di dimensioni decrescenti verso l'apice, a forma di fiasco.).

This species is very common especially in May, so I will definitely try to take better photos from other angles whenever possible.

Edited by ESant on 08-10-2020 20:13