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Post 89. No. 7

Godonela translineata. Geometridae. Ennomiinae.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-11...ariini_6_9.php
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gancw1/...57611945417047

As stated in the text , this species is indistinguishable from G. ermesaria which is northern, from India to south China.
http://www.ccs-hk.org/DM/butterfly/G...emersaria.html

TL Seow

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Post 89. No. 6.

Drapetodes magnifica. Drepanidae, Drepaninae.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-8/...ninae_21_4.php

A 2nd species recorded from Singapore but not found in Borneo. D. mitaria.
http://www.geocities.ws/drepanidae/104-39.jpg

TL Seow

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89 - 7 looks like Chiasmia sp. to me?

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Post 89. No. 3.

Herpetogramma spp. Pyralidae.

As you can see from the two below , wingshape, every lines & spots matched correctly, including the two on the abdomen.
From USA.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/777788/bgimage
From Reunion , Indian Ocean.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...eyeni-26mm.jpg

ID Correction : Post 57. No. 1. Pyralidae/Crambidae.
Th markings don't quite matched Vestura minereusalis.
The large eyes, head, palps, & strong antennae are typical Pyralid/Crambid. Likewise wingshape & markings.
(I guess if it looks like a Crambid/Pyralid, it almost always is.)


TL Seow

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89 - 7 looks like Chiasmia sp. to me?

You are right. There is a name change. It is now Chiasmia translineata.
Godonela is treated as a junior synonym of Chiasmia.

TL Seow

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Thx for the clarification Seow

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Post 89. No. 4.

Rhectothyris gratiosalis. Crambidae. Pyraustinae/Spilomelinae. Range India, China to Borneo.

The position of the yellow lines & the hyaline spots matched coorectly the example from Taiwan.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13940097@N04/4583732716

A darker example from Vietnam.
http://richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/...tiosalis04.jpg

There are only 2 species in the genus, the 2nd one R. rosea is quite different. Range Assam to Australia.
http://www1.ala.org.au/gallery2/v/Cr...tothyrisrosea/

TL Seow

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Post 1 No. 4 & 5.

These two are not moths. They look like true bugs, Hemiptera/Homoptera.
The snout is a thin central tube unlike the twin labial palps of moths.
The head & antennae & the long legs all do not match.

TL Seow
PS. I may yet be wrong, but I haven't come across anything among the Pyraloids that suggest it is close to these two.

PS2 .By zooming in on the pix, the central 'palps' is actually the extended proboscis, so these two are really moths after all.
Strangely I can find nothing close to resembling them.

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Post 57 No. 1.

This is correctly Bertula alpheusalis. Erebidae, Herminiinae. (Note Noctuidae is now more restricted.)Himalaya to Sundaland.
(I have MoB part 17 for the ID.)
The front end may look like Pyralid/Crambid but the wings are more ample & the band is not seen in the Pyraloids.

A very similar species is Bertula abjudicalis from Sri Lanka/India.
The margins of the band is similarly double-lined. The band is however broadly extended in the costal half in abjudicalis.
The 2 marks (whitish in alpheusalis ) are similarly placed, one at the front margin & the larger one at the angle of the back margin.
http://lepidoptera.pro/taxonomy/68394

JPmoth has unfortunately captioned as Bertula alpheusalis an image taken in Sabah.
This in no way resembles the image of B alpheusalis in MoB.
It is very close to the image of B. lobativalva, a species also recorded in Singapore.
http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital...lpheusalis.htm

TL Seow

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Post 89. No. 2.

Tentative ID. Raphiscopa undulata , Erebidae, Herminiinae . Range Sundaland (Sumatra, Malaya & Borneo.)

The undulating margin of the FW band & the 3 white dots matched the image of Raphiscopa serrata, whose image in MoB is rather dark.
However, as stated in the text R. serrata is similar to R. undulata & differs in the postmedial (the dark grey band) having a more definite dark component basally and the pale submarginal (line or band ) being more clearly defined.
R. serrata is a Bornean endemic.

The image of R. undulata in MoB is too worn & old for proper comparison.

TL Seow