Identification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

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06.07.2008 11:43, okoem

I saw some strange butterfly in Kiev(?)

1 wings held in a way similar to Hedya salicella (a couple of messages above the picture of which), only looked even more slender
2 three or four centimeters long and very narrow
3 mustache almost in the length of the body, but probably still a little shorter
4 color similar to Cossus (from previous messages again), maybe slightly darker
5 gave off a very unpleasant smell
and the main thing that surprised me a few more was that it somehow looked leathery, usually butterflies are covered with something like powder, but it seems that they are not

can you tell me in which family / genus you should look for such a thing?

If you don't take the smell into account, half of the existing butterflies and caddis flies fit your description. So it would be better to "take a photo to the studio".
What were the circumstances of the discovery? Where was she found, what was she sitting on, and how did she behave?

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06.07.2008 13:07, dimocritus

Then I see... it's just that I've never encountered such
things before and it seems that I looked at some pictures of all sorts of births, but I didn't see
anything similar, that is, I didn't think that these are very common characteristics

I saw it in Kiev, at night-I flew into the light
and there would be a photo, why should I describe it then, I just borrowed the camera at that moment

However, I looked at some pictures of Adelaide's - really similar, for example http://lepidoptera.ru/species/nematopogon-swammerdamella/

there is, of course, the option that my memory somewhat distorted the size of the beast