This beautiful moth paid us a visit in November. Chestnut brown, his velvety wings looked soft enough to touch. I hadn’t seen one like him before. After getting nowhere with my insect book, I posted it on the Natural History Museum’s NaturePlus identification forum. Thanks to Brian Hardman for his quick reply. “This is Eriogaster rimicola,” said Brian. “I don’t know of a real common name for this species, but Eriogaster species are eggars and ‘rimicola’ means crack or cleft-loving, so you might call it a ‘cleft eggar’.”

To visit the websites which Brian referred me to for more details, click here:-
http://www.pyrgus.de/Eriogaster_rimicola_en.html

http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Eriogaster_Rimicola

5 to remember
una mariposa de la luz – a moth
el museo – museum
la indentificación – identification
el foro – forum
la respuesta – answer