Moths of Fraser's Hill

[chrisw]

I need help identifying these moths.  They are all from Fraser's Hill Malaysia.
Thank you in advance.

[Paul K]

9. Herochroma hemiticheres
2. Abraxas lugubris

[chrisw]

Here's what I have been able to figure out so far.

1. Xenoplia sp or Antipercnia sp
2. Abraxas lugubris (thanks to Paul)
3. Aegilia sundascribens
4. ? Still no clue. For such a showy moth I thought this one would be easy
5. Calliteara cerigoides
6. Ginshachia bronacha
7. Kunugia sp
8. ?
9. Opthalmitis basiscripta

[chrisw]

Thanks Jan. That does help. I will investigate those.

[Paul K]

Feb 2, 2019 17:22:55 GMT skandinavisk said:

#4 is most likely Euproctis plagiata.

#5: Specimens of this species are always greasy, in collections.

#8 is a species of Subfamily Pantheinae, Genus Trichosea. Trichosea androdes should be known from the current area.

#9 was identified as Genus Herochroma, but this Genus has thin antennae. Genus Ophthalmitis, on the other hand, has feathery antennae, as can clearly be seen on the picture. I would identify #9 as Ophthalmitis viridior, but with not so good pictures on the moths of Borneo website and (probably) inadequately identified nice pictures on a Google search, this is probably open to individual interpretation.

Hope that helps.

Jan

I agree with Jan, #9 is Ophthalmitis, this genus is very difficult as few are very similar.
I have actually two in my collection but I labeled wrong the green specimen with genus  Herochroma which belongs to subfamily Geometrinae and Ophthalmitis is placed in Ennominae.

This site maybe somewhat of help here: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/124237-Ophthalmitis


Paul

[chrisw]

photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNZoUICznBZenop29BVJRtY21B_t6EioorMA0TY

These are the last few I have not been able to identify.   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[chrisw]

Mar 2, 2019 23:20:47 GMT skandinavisk said:

Its a broken link....

Jan        

It worked for me on both my home and work computer.  I will see if I can post it another way.  Thanks for the heads up.

[Adam Cotton]

It doesn't work for me either. If I try to open it I just get:

Google

404. That’s an error.

The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.


Adam.

[chrisw]

Here is a picture of the last few moths I have not been able to identify.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Paul K]

#5. Maybe Syntypistis palladina

That’s all I have in my Thai moth collection

[Ed]

You are using the Turlin technique to pin them

[chrisw]

Mar 27, 2019 22:39:36 GMT Ed said:

You are using the Turlin technique to pin them

What is that?

[Ed]

Mar 29, 2019 16:48:59 GMT chrisw said:

Mar 27, 2019 22:39:36 GMT Ed said:

You are using the Turlin technique to pin them

What is that?

I probably misspelled it but it’s the technique of poking pins through the wing. It’s a older technique! Personally I like my wings hole less, but I guess some prefer their wings holey or don’t mind it.

[chrisw]

Mar 29, 2019 17:34:26 GMT Ed said:

Mar 29, 2019 16:48:59 GMT chrisw said:

What is that?

I probably misspelled it but it’s the technique of poking pins through the wing. It’s a older technique! Personally I like my wings hole less, but I guess some prefer their wings holey or don’t mind it.

I don't necessarily like holes in my wings either.  However, some of the smaller moths are hard to get the wings to stay just right and as a result I will sometimes get holes in the wings.
If someone has a better technique for smaller, older moths & butterflies I would like to know how to do that.  I am still trying to perfect my pinning.  

[Ed]

Try the string method