The photo is not good quality, but if anybody could help me find out what it is I would appreciate it. http://picfu.com/link/60161/e94babce7d992749 The wingspan is about 2cm at a guess
That's a Plume Moth, family Pterophoridae. There are several hundred known species of the Plume Moth worldwide so getting a more definitive ID will take some searching. But if you google "Plume Moth" you should find many sites to search thru.
It looks like some kind of plume moth. Edit: Toni answered five minutes before me, and I hadn't refreshed the page. Sorry.
Does anybody familiar with them have any idea which one? Emmelina monodactyla? It has the little brown streaks down the midline of the abdomen.
Here is a photograph of Emmelina monodactyla on a light surface for you to look at. I think you are right and that it is the moth in your photograph.
Thankyou for the help I read on the bugsandweeds website that a 'prime identification feature (of Emmelina monodactyla) is the central dark spot'. Where is this? I can see a little dark spot on each wing in my photo and on some but not all images i can find online. Is this what it means?
I think it will be the spots you've noticed on the wings Twannywun as they appear to be mid-way along each wing and I've never noticed any other spots that they could be referring to. Then again maybe the moth we're both supposing is Emmelina monodactyla is actually another very similar species - Stenoptilia pterodactyla or Brown Plume Moth. :-?