The Thai website clearly shows the typical posture with the large spiny hind legs raised.
This plus the white banded abdomen & fringed wings indicates it has to be Stathmmopodinae after all.
A crosscheck with NHM shows only a few species of Snellenia.
Eliminating the Australian ones (which appear to be endemic) brings up 4 species. 1 spp S. latipes- Brazilian.
S. coccinea TL Himalaya. S. tarsella TL Himalaya. S. ignispergens. TL japan.
No Sesiid have such proportinately large & long wings; HW of sesiid tends to be bigger than FW; FW not symmetrical in shape ; antenna shorter. with the tip curved or hooked.
The superfamily Gelechioidea contains moths usually with prominent curved labial palps; slender bodies & wings completely folded at rest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelechioidea
The identity may yet lies with one of the macromoth families.
TL Seow
Last edited by Psyche; 09-Sep-2013 at 11:20 AM.
Reason: typo
I have cheched the superfamily Sesioidea without result.
So I am trying a logical approach which may well turn ut to be the correct one.
In the course of checking out these moths I realised the antennal difference is due to the sex, the male with more coarsely featured ones.
The almost symmetrically-shaped forewings & orange-red colouration is seen in both Atkinsonia & Snellenia.( & Tinaegeria -neotropical).
It is possible the male may have larger & more prominent labial palps & also longer fringe on the forewings.
Snellenia with its enormous palps can be discounted. There are only 2 Himalayan sppecies.
Here is the male from Yunnan. (slender- built. pectinate antennae, larger more spiny legs , longer palps longer hair fringe on FW.)
Note identical colour to the female above. Forewing & thorax wholly orange-red, head black. http://www.flickr.com/photos/itchydo...n/photostream/
Since the male is identifiable as Atkinsonia, it follows the female is likewise so.
I have cheched the superfamily Sesioidea without result.
So I am trying a logical approach which may well turn ut to be the correct one.
In the course of checking out these moths I realised the antennal difference is due to the sex, the male with more coarsely featured ones.
The almost symmetrically-shaped forewings & orange-red colouration is seen in both Atkinsonia & Snellenia.( & Tinaegeria -neotropical).
It is possible the male may have larger & more prominent labial palps & also longer fringe on the forewings. Snellenia with its enormous palps can be discounted. There are only 2 Himalayan sppecies.
Here is the male from Yunnan. (slender- built. pectinate antennae, larger more spiny legs , longer palps, longer hair fringe on FW.)
Note identical colour to the female above. Forewing & thorax wholly orange-red, head black. http://www.flickr.com/photos/itchydo...n/photostream/
Since the male is identifiable as Atkinsonia, it follows the female is likewise so.