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Fungus moth in the forest
I am not sure if it is Lampronia corticella or Euplocamus anthracinalis.
Lampronia corticella is somewhat variable. Some specimens identified as the synonym Lampronia rubiella look just like this one but I wonder if it is not a mistake.
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Lampronia+corticella
http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds4/mothimageslamproniacorticella.htm
http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Lampronia_Corticella
http://www2.nrm.se/en/svenska_fjarilar/l/lampronia_corticella.html
http://www.lepidoptera.no/en/arter/?or_id=6543
http://lepidoptera.pro/taxonomy/2762
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TNXpFp4Z9o0/SM1tZgUHpEI/AAAAAAAAAkA/rb6S0OMWT44/s800-h/Lampronia+rubiella-5.JPG
Euplocamus anthracinalis looks very similar.
http://lepidopteragallery.org/Euplocamus_anthracinalis.html
http://lepidoptera.pro/taxonomy/10229
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=197
http://www.lepidoptera.eu/show.php?ID=2024&country=GB
http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Euplocamus_Anthracinalis
http://www.insektenbox.de/schmet/eupant.htm
http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/euplocamus-anthracinalis-photo-14918.html
Update: having found a proper Euplocamus anthracinalis, I am sure this is not one.
It is most likely Lampronia corticella (Lampronia rubiella). There's one that looks just the same here:
http://www.udec.ru/vrediteli/malinovaya_mol.php
''Lampronia corticella'', the raspberry moth, is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It is found in most of Europe, except Iceland, the Iberian Peninsula and the Balkan Peninsula. It is an introduced species in North America, where it was first detected in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1936.
The wingspan is 10–12 mm.
The larvae feed on ''Rubus'' species.
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