What the Hell is This?

[Kugellager]

Ok so what is this?...some sort of moth or large midge?

Wingspan is about 1" wide.

John
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[Kugellager]

Pic #2

John
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[TheWidowsPeak]

I see these all the time and I'm pretty sure its a moth. at least powder comes off of the wings

 

[Kugellager]

Pic #3 underside...a bit blurry. Though now that I am looking at a blow-up of the head region I'm pretty sure its some kind of moth...never seen one 'til today though.

John
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[Longbord1]

it is a scorpion fly note its toes on its last pair of legs there very segmented so when a incect come by those snap around it and wala lunch

 

[Kugellager]

Uh....riiiiiiiight.

John

 

[Longbord1]

throw a cricket in and see what happens

 

[Kugellager]

Dude its a moth...look at the mouth parts, antenna and wing structure, eyes etc...but mostly the mouth parts...

John
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[Wade]

One nice thing about working at a nature center is I'm surrounded by field guides. Flipping through the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Moths (I know you're in the west) I think what you have is a plume moth, family Pterophoridae. The tiny picture they provided was inconclusive, but the description says "Easily recognized by long slender legs and T-shaped appearance when at rest, with rolled wings held at right angles to the body"

Sounds like your guy!

Wade

 

[Code Monkey]

Wade would appear to have hit the nail on the head with the family. Check this page out for one that looks almost identical.

 

[Kugellager]

Thank you Wade and Chip. Looks just about identical to the Emmelina monodactyla in the link above.

It was just a weird insect that I have never seen in Colorado even though I have lived here for seven years. I know that there is usually someone somewhere on this site who has a serious idea of what is temporarily unidentifiable.

John
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[Longbord1]

what happened was, i was looking in an old book and it said scorpion fly and had an actual pic which ur "moth" looked exactly like