This is the problem: I need to move that face/poly because I now want to extrude the front wings, but the last face next to the lower wings, is going to make the mesh pass through the mesh of the lower wing, so I wanted to first move that poly further along the moth's back, to let the top wings come through... um, do you follow?

Need to extrude from the yellow marked area. see pic.

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