On a misty November noon I found this odd little insect sitting on a wrapped silage (hay) bale . My first guess was a wingless moth... than After looking it up and could not find any moth that resembles ...I thought it could be a terrestrial Caddisfly.. oh what a mistake I realizedthanks to the comments of "flymman13"! And it i sure - now - to be a wingless female Geometer moth!L: 10-15 mmPhylum: Arthropoda (arthropods, Gliederfer)Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816Class: Insecta (insects, Insekten)Subclass: Pterygota (Fluginsekten)Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923Order: Lepidoptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (butterflies and moths, Schmetterlinge)Suborder: GlossataInfraorder: HeteroneuraSuperfamily: GeometroideaFamily: Geometridae LEACH, 1815 (geometer moth, Spanner)[det. flyman13, 2013, based on this photo]Subfamily: Larentiinae DUPONCHEL, 1845Genus:
Operophtera HBNER, 1825
Operophtera brumata LINNAEUS, 1758 (Winter Moth, Kleiner Frostspanner), please compare:
www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Operophtera_Brumatamore info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Mothmore info (German):
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_FrostspannerGermany, Hessen, Kassel: Dnche, ca. 200m asl., 17.11.2013 IMG_0788