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Alucita sp.


Alucita sp.
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Copyright: Maxime Sacre (Max31) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 15 W: 0 N: 39] (182)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-06-22
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 30 D, Canon 75 - 300 mm IS-USM
Exposure: f/8, 1/500 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-04-24 7:01
Viewed: 543
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French]
I am not sure but I think that this butterfly names Alucite.
I took this photograph in middle of the day last year when this butterfly was
posed on lavender.

The alucites are butterflies of really strange aspect. Of abors, each
one of their wings is made of three or four "feathers", which resemble
completely feathers of ostrich in miniature. In flight, they resemble
the first planes built about 1900... At rest, these carefully rolled
up wings form each side of the body a kind of horizontal cigar. As for
the legs, they are roughcast of some "brushwood" which gives them the
aspect of thin deadwood branches!
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Ciao Maxime,
questa bella coppia di piccole falene non appartiene alla famiglia Alucitidae, ma ad una molto prossima, quella delle Pterophoridae.
Guarda, per esempio, queste foto di Adaina microdactyla.
Amichevolmente,
Marcello

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  • mariki Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1086 W: 65 N: 2302] (9437)
  • [2008-04-24 12:05]

Hello Maxime,

Sorry no time, just marking.
Mariki

Hi Maxime
Very good shot. Good composition and colours.
Very good sharpness as these butterflies are quite small.
Congratulations
Ania

Hello Maxime and welcome among TN members!
First of all - my best congratulation because of the idea for this picture. Not only a rare object on TN (these moths are very difficult to photograph, they are small and... not very colourful), but also a great moment. To keep these two specimens in so interesting pose and details - it was not easy :)
By the way, a little bigger species of moth presented in very similar pose can be found here :)
Best greetings,
Radomir

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