(BG) Elegant Grass-veneer - Hodges#5420 (Microcrambus elegans)2012-8-12 PL, DE

update 9/3/16: ID by Kyhl Austin
NOT Microcrambus minor - Hodges#5422 (Microcrambus minor)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1237730/bgimage

see:
M. minor here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/885985/bgimage
and here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/930081/bgimage

UPDATE 2016-7-24:
In suggesting this might be M. minor I used the pictures at bg and those at MPG
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=5422
and, *generally* speaking, there are three points, to my eye, that had me lean towards minor and which I'll try to reconstruct here.
1) the "eyes" - where minor's generally look more diffuse and tend to look as though they run together because of more darkness/speckling between the eyes, elegans' eyes tend to be more discrete
2) the "mouth" - where minor generally has an extra dark area coming down from the middle of the mouth, elegans' mouth in almost all cases is lacking that feature
3) the silhouette - generally minor looks more cylindrical and elegans more triangular

To my mind, the individual above looks like one of the spread wing pictures at MPG, the one with the blended eyes and the extra dark area in the middle of the mouth.

The one area that troubled me then, and still troubles me, is elegans' "subterminal line" (if my understanding of that term is correct). The info page in the guide describes it as "sharp, even, parallel to outer margin" in elegans - - and this is what I'm seeing on this moth.

Earlier this evening I found the original picture in hopes of pinning down size. Well, that was time wasted. The leg of the critter visible in the picture above is a Citrus Flatid Planthopper. It's size taken from the info page shed no light and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get any relief from that. :o)

I'm reminded of a line from the movie "As Good as it Gets" where Jack Nicholson is sitting at a dinner table with Helen Hunt. At one point he throws his face into his hands and says, "It's exhausting talking like this!" :oD)))

p.s. - Citrus Flatid Planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa) info page
http://bugguide.net/node/view/7342
Size: adults 5.5-8 mm