Is this an ovipositor? The moth in this picture is Orthosia praeses.
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Hmm I don’t know, sorry.
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Do you think it might be a pheremone gland?
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Um, no idea, sorry…
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Same.
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Hehehe.
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Can you pls make a picture in closer view?
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I took this picture 5 months ago. The moth in this picture is alive, but pretending to be dead, and was later released back outside after she (I assume this is a female) got loose in my house. This is the only picture I have of this.
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So, you assumed it is an ovipositor because you assumed it was female??
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Have a look here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319332183_A_review_of_the_occurrence_and_diversity_of_the_sphragis_in_butterflies_Lepidoptera_Papilionoidea
If it is a female, does it possible that you observe a kind of sphragis or similar structure?
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Well it doesn’t look like the clasper of a male insect to me.
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that’s fair to say.
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