Posted by Mucha Fero on 26-06-2012 04:03
#1
Psychodidae_Tinearia alternata(female) is the correct name? Region Malá Fatra Terchová about 500 m altitude. Thank you very much for your help. I made a photo of 25.06. 2012.
Edited by Mucha Fero on 26-06-2012 20:16
Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 26-06-2012 10:46
#2
That should be
Psychoda alternata; there is no evidence that
Tinearia forms a separate lineage from
Psychoda. Instead, it seems like
Tinearia is just a subgenus or species group within
Psychoda.
In any case this is not a
Tinearia or even a
Psychoda. In your pictures of the living animal the wings are held upwards and to the side. When Psychoda flies rest they keep the wings parallel.
What this actually is can be very hard to find out because it is a female, and very few Psychodidae females apart from Psychoda do not possess any known characters that we know are reliable for identifying them even to genera.