Post 18.
1 & 2 is most likely Lebeda cognata.
This species has been recorded in Singapore.
A couple of somewhat similar species in P. Malaysia ie. L. agnata & nobilis but unlikely.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-3/...mpidae_3_1.php
TL Seow
Post 18.
1 & 2 is most likely Lebeda cognata.
This species has been recorded in Singapore.
A couple of somewhat similar species in P. Malaysia ie. L. agnata & nobilis but unlikely.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-3/...mpidae_3_1.php
TL Seow
Post 18.
I am fairly confident no. 3 is Genusa simplex , Geometridae, probably the only species in the genus here.
As stated in the text, the markings varies & may be weak.
The text image the FW marginal spots on the left.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-11...rosini_4_1.php
This Sumatran example is devoid of spots but the grey banding is similar.
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php...e?taxon=Genusa
Correction. no 3 is Cerasana anceps.
TL Seow
Last edited by Psyche; 05-Aug-2013 at 10:05 PM.
I think the last one is more likely a Cerasana species (Notodontiae). Its resting position is not typical of Geometrids, and I have photo of a previously unrecorded Thai species which is closer.
You are right it is Cerasana anceps. The FW marginal spots matched.
The brownish colour of the old specimen have caught me off-guard.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-4/...tidae_13_1.php
I know most Geometrids rest with FWs raised, but the whole thing is rather confusing.
Time to permanently retire the wording "fairly confident".
TL Seow
Congrats Les!
Next flash coming.
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Ambulyx moorei (?)
Theretra nessus (?)
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Post 26.
1. Krananda semihyalina.Geometridae.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2189/2...22452f03_z.jpg
5. Hyposidra talaca. Geometridae.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-11...rmiini_7_1.php
TL Seow
No.2 looks close to Cyclosus inclusus - Zygaenidae. However, the black markings seem much more extensive, even for a female.
No.3 is Ambulyx moorei- Sphingidae.
No. 4 is Theretra nessus - Sphyngidae
Not sure if this is the valid name.
Moth of Borneo list this sepcies as A. subocellata westwood 1847 but made no mention of A. moorei in the text (including under A. substrigilis).
Funet put subocellata 1874, as a junior synonym of moorei 1858, quoting Moore as the author of his own name ( contravening ICZN rule).
Lepindex put moorei 1858 as a synonym of subocellata in error quoting Butler as the author of moorei.
It however, also place moorei 1858 Boisduval as a synonym od A. substrigilis 1874 Westwood.
Boisduval is the correct author of A. moorei 1858 which is a synonym of A. substrigilis(possibly a variety by some).
I don't think A. moorei have been upgraded to a full species from A. substrigilis (thereby creating a new species absent from the Bornean list).
http://www.archive.org/stream/catalo...e/265/mode/1up
A helpful feature of T. nessus is the pale patch on FW apex & the pinky abdominal sides.
TL Seow
Check here , where is states the two were synonymised to A. moorei.
The same is quoted by Inoue, Kennett & Kitching in Moths of Thailand, volume 2, 1997, Sphingidae. p.35. but adds " Horsfield & Moore..........1: 266, nec Boisduval [as a syn. of Ambulyx substrigalis Westwood]".
The synonymy was undertaken by Kitching & Spitzer, 1995 :An annotated checklist of the Sphingidae of Vietnam, p.178. Tinea 14: 171-195.
Moth of Borneo, volume 3 was published prior to 1995, in 1987.