Is this Caenerresa diaphania ?

[Bluebottle]

This is one of the common daylight moth found in Singapore. Not sure I id it correctly:

[Bluebottle]

Oops, someone post the question before (genus Amata?).
http://butterflycircle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6958

Saw someone on the net id it as Caenerresa diaphania.

[Commander]

Have to wait for our expert Roger to advise. In the moth world there are so many lookalikes that will make you go .

Anyway, I always wondered where the term "daylight moth" came from. I noticed that some photogs started it at NPS and CS and then it continued.

As far as I remember, it's always been "day-flying moth" to describe generically, this group of moths that fly during the day instead of at night, which the majority of moths typically do.

[benetay]

Yes my mum keep telling me it's day flying moth when i was young. Quite a nice looking moth to start with.

Cheers!

[Wanderer]

indeed it is good to start with...this is the first i butt/moth i ever caught. haha.

狭翅鹿子蛾 (明窗鹿蛾) Amata hirayamae Matsumura, according to

http://gaga.jes.mlc.edu.tw/new23/9401/w08.htm

[Peacock Royal]

You managed to get a clean and green bg shot.
I suppose their wings were not on the same plane resulting in some parts of the wings not sharp - tough situation for you.

[Bluebottle]

Thank you all for the inputs and comments.
Ok, it is a day-flying moth, amata genus.

Cheers

[Wanderer]

found it again yesterday, after the rain have stopped...

[Great Mormon]

very nice shot! i can never get the wings in focus everytime i try!

by the way, whats that chinese words on the right?

[Wanderer]

I was lucky. the moth was spreading it's wings flat and i took a shot from above. The chinese words says "The October of 2008 [lunar calender] was extremely rainy and on the first non-rainy day i captured this shot of the day flying moth." [rough translation].