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  1. 04-Sep-2007, 12:39 PM #1
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    Could someone please help with the ID of these two moths? Thanks!


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  2. 04-Sep-2007, 02:23 PM #2
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    No. 1 is a most amazing fly!

    No. 2 is Amata stellaris (Moths of Borneo, part 6, p. 13); Arctiidae, Syntominae.

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    can No 1 fly PROPERLY in the first place?

    wow.. the antennas are like..
    like.. two huge booms stuck on my head..
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    That fly reminds me of a 'joke' photo I saw recently (which I DO NOT approve of, by the way). It is obviously two pipecleaners attached to a weevil head attached to a cactus leaf with two fly's wings added on for show!
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  5. 05-Sep-2007, 12:14 AM #5
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    That's really a very strange looking fly! Besides the antennae, the abdomen also looks very strange.

    No, it didn't fly. I wonder if it ever could. It was only walking clumsily.
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    Tang, do you need an ID for the fly for record purposes? If so, I can post it on Insectnet. One can usually get at least a partial ID there, and a bit of googling thereafter normally works. I, for one, would be very intetrested.

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