chrisw
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Post by chrisw on Jan 14, 2019 23:31:31 GMT
I need help identifying these moths. They are all from Fraser's Hill Malaysia. Thank you in advance.
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Post by Paul K on Jan 15, 2019 0:57:45 GMT
9. Herochroma hemiticheres 2. Abraxas lugubris
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Post by chrisw on Feb 2, 2019 1:11:53 GMT
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
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Post by chrisw on Feb 2, 2019 19:02:26 GMT
Thanks Jan. That does help. I will investigate those.
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Post by Paul K on Feb 2, 2019 19:45:39 GMT
#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-OphthalmitisPaul
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Post by chrisw on Mar 2, 2019 17:44:17 GMT
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Post by chrisw on Mar 3, 2019 18:15:17 GMT
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.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Mar 3, 2019 21:22:44 GMT
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.
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chrisw
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Post by chrisw on Mar 6, 2019 23:10:38 GMT
Here is a picture of the last few moths I have not been able to identify. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by Paul K on Mar 7, 2019 1:17:41 GMT
#5. Maybe Syntypistis palladina
That’s all I have in my Thai moth collection
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Post by Ed on Mar 27, 2019 22:39:36 GMT
You are using the Turlin technique to pin them
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Post by chrisw on Mar 29, 2019 16:48:59 GMT
You are using the Turlin technique to pin them What is that?
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Post by Ed on Mar 29, 2019 17:34:26 GMT
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.
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Post by chrisw on Mar 31, 2019 19:06:39 GMT
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.
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Post by Ed on Apr 1, 2019 3:23:56 GMT
Try the string method
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