Danum Valley - Moths

[Glorious Begum]

Thanks Les.

I had too many doubts so I contacted Dr. Ian Kitching at the British Museum about this one and No.2 in the first post.

He advised that No. 2 is Ambulyx substrigilis f. cana, a very heavily marked form, which is probably why I could not ID it in the first place.

For the second, flying photo, he has advised that it is Eurypteryx shelfordi, a new, but not entirely unexpected, record for Sabah , having been found in Sarawak and Brunei before. WELL DONE, LC.

[Painted Jezebel]

Just found No. 9, whilst looking for something else! It is Tinoliodes dehanna (Arctiidae).

[Glorious Begum]

Thanks Les.

Just found No. 9, whilst looking for something else! It is Tinoliodes dehanna (Arctiidae).

[Painted Jezebel]

Two more for you, LC.

No.6 is an excellent photo of either ''Euproctis'' lyclene, female, or ''Euproctis'' albolyclene, sex unknown. ''Euproctis'' is a 'junk' Genus for those species which do not fit into any other subfamily of the Lymantridae.( Moths of Borneo, Volume 5.)

No.7 is Semiothisops macariata. The markings of this species are very variable.

[hkmoths]

best check up on the Noctuoidea - Lymantriidae and Arctiidae are now subfamilies of Erebidae (the "quadrifine" Noctuidae), along with Aganainae, Herminiinae, Hypeninae, Calpinae, Pangraptinae, Eublemminae, etc. and Catocalinae are now (mostly - still a number of unresolved placements to tribe of the LAQ spp.) a tribe of Erebinae.
Eutellinae and Stictopterinae are split off from Noctuidae into Eutellidae;
Nolinae are back up to family rank (Nolidae).

see Lafontaine & Schmidt, 2010. ZooKeys, vol 40 (free online access)
and Zahiri et al., 2011. Zoologica Scripta, 40: 158-173

cheers,
Roger.