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DateSun 2014-04-27

A female Incurvaria masculella (Lepidoptera: Incurvariidae).  The larvae mine the leaves of hawthorn (Crataegus sp).  The adult males have rather splendid pectinate antennae.

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-04-26.

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