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 Neotropical moths - ID?
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| gedra |
Posted on 07-09-2009 19:05
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 Member Location: Norway Posts: 327 Joined: 08.02.09 |
After a visit to Puerto Maldonado, Peru in July, I have a few unidentified moths i would like some help with (optimistic maybe, but worth a try?). Anyone recognize some of them? #1: Geir |
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| gedra |
Posted on 09-09-2009 19:39
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 327 Joined: 08.02.09 |
#1: Some kind of Hawk moth?
gedra attached the following image:  [105.07Kb] Geir |
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| gedra |
Posted on 09-09-2009 19:40
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 327 Joined: 08.02.09 |
#2: Sesiidae sp.?
gedra attached the following image:  [163.3Kb] Edited by gedra on 09-09-2009 19:40 Geir |
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| gedra |
Posted on 09-09-2009 19:43
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 327 Joined: 08.02.09 |
#3 - A geometrid moth
gedra attached the following image:  [131.49Kb] Geir |
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| gedra |
Posted on 09-09-2009 19:44
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 327 Joined: 08.02.09 |
#4: Another geometrid moth - emerald
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-09-2009 23:16
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
To my untrained eye I would say that the top 2 are Arctiidae (or close families) and the bottom 2 are Geometridae ... but it's a very difficult part of the world to make such rash guesses!  You could try to contact some lepidopterists in the neotropics - they might recognise the shapes  There are some good lepidopterists in French Guiana (Guyane) who might be able to help. If you google a bit you can come up with some sites like http://www.papill...Guyane.htm
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 11-09-2009 01:30
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
2 bottom - Geometridae Second photo shows a Syntomidae moth. |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 31-10-2009 12:08
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 Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3331 Joined: 17.10.05 |
1 Xanthoarctia pseudameoides (Rotschild, 1909) (Arctiidae, Arctiinae). Described from Peru. 2 Looks very much like Saurita vindonissa (Druce, 1883) (Arctiidae, Ctenuchinae); this species is probably recorded only from Ecuador, though. Yet it's certainly a Saurita sp. 3 Eois nr. binaria (Geometridae, Larentiinae). 4 Lissochlora? Nemoria? (Geometridae, Geometrinae). While others can't climb, using infinite pains, I, gravity turning to jest, Ascend, with all ease, perpendicular planes, Rough or smooth, just as pleases me best. |
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