Moths

2 species of the genus Mardara from Nepal, May 2012
-M. calligramma male
- M. irrorata female

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Varmina indica Walker, 1855
Nepal, May 2012

V. Zolotukhin has already raised the issue of the status of this species. While he's at sem. Lymantriidae. If necessary, we will move it

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Dasychira chekiangensis Collenette, 1938
Male-Thailand

Calliteara subnigra 02.02.1995 N. Guinea, Irian Jaya, Nabire, Wanggar riv. leg, Ivy I. det. Chebur

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Calliteara minor 18.01.1995 N. Guinea, Irian Jaya, Balliem vall., Jiwika, 1700m, leg. Ivy I. det. Chebur

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Dasychira glaucozona Collenette, 1934
Male - China, Sichuan

Dasychira flavimacula Moore, [1866]
Two males - China, Sichuan

Aroa ochripicta Moore, 1879
Male - Thailand

Euroctis piperita Oberthür, 1880
Female-Primorye, Russia


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Somena pulverea Leech, [1889]
Female - Russia, Primorye

In some species of volnyanki, females have only rudimentary wings and cannot fly. This is often dictated by harsh natural conditions, such as in mountain species. Females put themselves at minimal risk by minimizing their movements, while males are assigned the task of finding a female. In many species, the females do not even leave the cocoon. This survival strategy is primarily characteristic of the Orgyiini volnyanki, but several species with this biology are also known in the Lymantriini tribe. Here are a few Palearctic taxa whose females are unable to fly.

Penthophera morio Linnaeus, 1767
Species found in Europe from Italy and Germany in the West to the European part of Russia in the east. The subspecies Pentophora morio caucasia Heylaerts, 1887 is known from Dagestan and Azerbaijan.
The wings of females of this species are about twice as short as the body.
Male nominative subspecies-Ukraine

Representatives of the genus Lachana are forced to survive in extreme conditions in the mountains at altitudes ranging from 3000 to 4300m above sea level. Species of this genus are known from Afghanistan, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Females are wingless, but with a developed head and legs. They don't leave the cocoon.
(If anyone has such or similar butterflies, please let me know. I would be grateful for any information on them.)

Lachana selenophora Staudinger, 1887
Two males and a female-Afghanistan (3200m num)



Two males-Kyrgyzstan (3400m num)


Male-Tajikistan (3600m num)


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Orgyia (Clethrogyna) dubia dubia Tauscher, 1806
Butterflies inhabit salt marshes. Females have no wings, legs, or head. They don't leave the cocoon.
Male and female - Russia, Crimea


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Orgyia (Clethrogyna) flavolimbata Staudinger, 1881
Male - Kyrgyzstan

Orgyia (Clethrogyna) ochrolimbata Staudinger, 1881
Male - Russia, North Caucasus


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Orgyia (?Clethrogyna) turbata Butler, 1879
By Holloway "Moths of Borneo" this species belongs to the subgenus Clethrogyna. I doubt it.
Male-Laos

Orgyia (Orgyia) antiqua Linnaeus, 1758
Male - Russia, North Caucasus

Male and female - Russia, Moscow region

Orgyia (Orgyia) antiqua Linnaeus, 1758
Female - Russia, Moscow

Caterpillar - Russia, Moscow region

Orgyia (Orgyia) postica Walker, 1855
Male - Thailand

Orgyia (Telochurus) recens approximans Butler, 1881
Male-Primorye, Russia

Orgyia (Thylacigna) antiquoides NOT#bner, [1822]
Male-Primorye, Russia

Male - Mongolia, Mongolian Altai


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Orgyia (Thylacigna) prisca Staudinger, 1887
Male - Kyrgyzstan

Males-Tajikistan

Most likely Parocneria terebynthina (Staudinger, 1894)
The male is Armenia.


This post was edited by chebur - 02/28/2015 23: 47

Orgyia (Thylacigna) antiquoides HЁ№bner, [1822]

let's add the Omsk butterfly as well:
Omsk region, Cherlaksky district, July 2011

An extremely interesting female of the Ocneria group from Kopet-Dag was exposed in the forum on the definition of butterflies just the other day vitalbata. Maybe we should move it here. By the way, it has not yet been identified )))

Here she is...
Kopet Dag, Kara Kala, Parkhay Gorge, early August.
Ocneria signatoria Christoph, 1883

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Penthophera morio Linnaeus, 1767
There were no females, for clarity with the male

An extremely interesting female of the Ocneria group from Kopet-Dag was exposed in the forum on the definition of butterflies just the other day vitalbata. Maybe we should move it here. By the way, it has not yet been identified )))

I think it is female O. signatoria Christoph, 1883

I think it is a female O. signatoria Christoph, 1883

I also think it's signatoria.
It is not entirely clear which genus this species belongs to - Ocneria or Parocneria. In Josef J. de Freina, Thomas J. Witt's "Die Bombyces und Sphinges der Westpalaearktis", for example, this species, along with detrita and terebinthi, belongs to the genus Parocneria Dyar, 1897, and rubea, eos, and ledereri are assigned to the genus Ocneria Hübner, [1819].

Parocneria signatoria signatoria Christoph, 1893
Female - Armenia


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Parocneria (signatoria) nisseni Rothschild 1912
Female-Morocco

Parocneria furva Leech, 1888
Male - Russia


This post was edited by chebur - 08.07.2013 19: 18

The pattern on the wings of this butterfly is clearly reduced by hard life and its end, judging by the preservation of the specimen. And something small, she must have been sick a lot as a child. Bad luck. As far as I can tell, you haven't seen terebynthina, or raddei var. vestalina was also not seen. Defining your Armenian instance as raddei is no less controversial. You don't read V. I. Kozhanchikov very carefully, pay attention to the dimensions, here he is accurate. And we don't read V. I. Kozhanchikov, we just watch him. But we don't care, as long as Mr. barko is happy

This post was edited by guest2-22.04.2013 16: 26

Polymona griseipennis Kozhantshikov, 1950. Armenia. Garni. leg. Ghazarian, det. Cebur, Cajarc.

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The pattern on the wings of this butterfly is clearly reduced by hard life and its end, judging by the preservation of the specimen. And something small, she must have been sick a lot as a child. Bad luck. As far as I can tell, you haven't seen terebynthina, or raddei var. vestalina was also not seen. Defining your Armenian instance as raddei is no less controversial. You don't read V. I. Kozhanchikov very carefully, pay attention to the dimensions, here he is accurate. And we don't read V. I. Kozhanchikov, we just watch him. But we don't care, as long as Mr. barko is happy

Yes, you're right. I haven't really seen the types of these taxa, and I would be very interested to see them. Could you post a photo of them, if you have the opportunity?
Indeed, I did not pay attention to the size of the specimen from Iran (wingspan-22mm). Thus, the specimen really fits into the species P. terebynthina (wingspan 23-25 mm in V. I. Kozhenchikov). Thank you for pointing out this persistent feature!
I would very much like to hear your opinion about the copy from Armenia (Data on the date and place of collection: 14.06.2010 Southern Armenia, Syunik district, Shvanidzor village, N=1000m). This specimen, unfortunately, also had a very difficult fate and its condition leaves much to be desired Wingspan-29mm (V. I. Kozhenchikov for R. raddei just gives this size for the male)

The pattern on the wings of this butterfly is clearly reduced by hard life and its end, judging by the preservation of the specimen. And something small, she must have been sick a lot as a child. Bad luck. As far as I can tell, you haven't seen terebynthina, or raddei var. vestalina was also not seen. Defining your Armenian instance as raddei is no less controversial. You don't read V. I. Kozhanchikov very carefully, pay attention to the dimensions, here he is accurate. And we don't read V. I. Kozhanchikov, we just watch him. But we don't care, as long as Mr. barko is happy

And in which museum are the types of terebynthina and raddei var. vestalina?

Duc almost all all types of Mr. Staudinger in Berlin. And Mr. May is still in Namibia (

How many times I visited Berlin, I only had enough time for a scoop. Next time I'll try to check out volnyanok.

Dedicated to all the wonderful participants of this forum and innocent victims of volnyanki-victims of idle knowledge.

H. G. Wells "A Wonderful Visit" 1895

"If it weren't for the collectors, England would be full-full of rare birds, wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and thousands of interesting things. But the collector successfully prevents this, either by destroying everything with his own hand, or by paying crazy money and thereby pushing people of the lower classes to destroy everything that is so extraordinary. By doing this, he also provides people with jobs - in defiance of all parliamentary acts. In this way, he, for example, destroys the Cornish pink-billed jackdaw, the Bath white butterfly, the spotted lily "Spanish queen" and can take credit for the final extermination of the wingless loon, as well as hundreds of other rare birds, plants, insects. All this is a direct merit of the collector and made by him alone. In the name of science! And this is right, it should be so; in fact, anything unusual is immoral (think carefully and you will come to this idea yourself), just as an unusual way of thinking is madness. (Try to find a different definition that is suitable for all cases of both.) And if the variety is rare, then it follows that it is not adapted to life. The collector is, in fact, only an infantryman on days when heavy weapons prevail: he lets the combatants do their work, and he cuts down the slain. So you can walk from end to end of England in summer and see only nine or ten species of the most ordinary wildflowers and even more ordinary butterflies and a dozen ordinary birds, and never encounter an offensive violation of the monotony-a strange flower does not flash on a branch, an unfamiliar wing does not flutter. Everything superfluous was taken away in the collection many years ago. For this reason, we should all love collectors and remember when they show us their home collections, what we owe them. Their camphor-scented little boxes, their glass display cases, and blotting-paper albums are nothing more than graves of the Rare and Beautiful, symbols of the Celebration of Leisure (well spent!) over The Joys Of Life. (However, all this, as you can rightly see, has nothing to do with the Strange Bird.) "

H. G. Wells was a great science fiction writer and visionary, and he touched on this topic for a reason.
Now, English collectors are faced with the full realization of the values that they have, because in just 100 years, foggy Albion can disappear into the depths of the Atlantic. Everything will disappear, including small animals, birds, and butterflies, and even the collector himself with boxes. Everything will be replaced by chaos, the struggle for survival will be replaced by "Leisure Celebrations", but this is only for a short time, then the "Joys of Life" will return again.

This post was edited by Romyald - 04/26/2013 19: 41