Photo #39839: Calophasia lunula
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Base gallery. Upperside. Pinned specimen.
Photo: Vasiliy Feoktistov. Image without retouching at the website. Identified by: Khalaim Yevgeniy
Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2012-05-22 00:00:00, Russia, Moscow reg., Zheleznodorozhny city, light at night. leg. Feoktistov V.I.
Photographer's comment: Wingspan: 27 mm. 2nd edition of the Red Book of the Moscow Region, category 2 (type with reduced population): http://kkmo2.verhovye.ru/rb/bspozvon/calophasia_lunula.php It is noteworthy that the species was previously (in the first edition of the CC) generally in the 1st category (endangered species): http://kkmo1.verhovye.ru/rb/animals/calophasia_lunula.html As for the rarity, I completely agree with both publications: it seems that this is the first and, alas, the last at the moment my discovery of the species, made 3 years ago (later I never met the butterfly).Comments on this image
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