Moths

Glavoe time to declare the island of Dr. Morro as a nature reserve ,and fight for the rights of oppressed Morlocks

Yes, if it weren't for collectors, the foggy rain forests of Scotland would still be home to magnificent birdwings...

I will give you my representatives of the genus Ocneria Hübner, [1819]. I have almost no recent literature on them, so I would be grateful for any comments.

Ocneria amabilis Christoph, 1887
Male - Yu.Iran, prov. Loristan


Male and female - Central Iran


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Ocneria atlantica Rambur, 1837
Male-Morocco


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Ocneria griseipennis Kozhantshikov, 1950
Male and female - Armenia


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Ocneria komarovi Christoph, 1882
Male -Armenia


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Polymona rufifemur Walker, 1855
Male - Mozambique

Female-Botswana

Female-Malawi


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Knappetra fasciata Walker, 1855
Male and female-Namibia

Laelia amabilis Aurivillius, 1879
Female-Namibia

Laelia fracta Schaus & Clements, 1893
Male-Botswana

Leucoma luteipes Walker, 1855
Male and Female-Cameroon

Stracena promelaena Holland, 1893
Two males-Cameroon
The male in the upper photo was described as Stracena promelaena Holland, 1893.
The male in the second photo is described as Stracena flavescens Aurivillius, 1925. The conspecificity of the two taxa was demonstrated by barcoding in the paper "DNA barcoding of museum specimens of Lymantriidae preserved in the Royal Museum for Central Africa"by ZoltEyn T. Nagy, Floris C. Breman & Ugo DallYMAsta, 2010



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Hemerqhanes diatoma trifyes Collenette, 1954
The species is interesting because, in addition to a pronounced sexual dimorphism, there is a male trimorphism. This is the only known case for the family where males of the same species fly in three forms.
Male and female - Namibia


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Hemerophanes libyra Druce, 1896
Male and female-Botswana

Bracharoa quadripunctata Wallengren, 1875
Male - Ethiopia


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Euroctis ionthada Collenette, 1957
Female-Malawi

Help me determine it. Lachana selenophora?
Afghanistan

Help me determine it. Lachana selenophora?
Afghanistan

Yes, this is Lachana selenophora Staudinger, 1887. In Afghanistan, they are like that. Can I add a point to my personal account?

Aroa substrigosa Walker, 1855
Female-Laos

Euroctis nigribasalis Swinhoe, 1903
Female - Malaysia, Borneo
The species is known only from females.


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Artaxa ormea Swinhoe, 1903
Female - Malaysia, Borneo

Nygmia guttulata Snellen, 1886
Male and female - Malaysia, Borneo


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Nikolai, do you have Nygmia guttulata on the mainland?

Nikolai, do you have Nygmia guttulata on the mainland?

The Japanese lead from mainland Malaysia. Карту с сайта "http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/01_LYMANTRIINAE/framepage%20Lymantriinae.html" прилагаю. The Philippines is also listed there. But the male from the island of Leyte shown on this site even looks too different from the typical Nygmia guttulata In
Holloway distribution - "Sundaland". This most likely includes mainland Malaysia.

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The Japanese can call" Zundaland " Malay Sabah, in northern Borneo.
Mainland Malaysia, however, should be "Malaya".
In general, I saw such nigmias from Indochina, so I asked.

Excuse me, gentlemen interested colleagues, but I would very much recommend - without pressure, however-to be as critical as possible of any information posted on the web, especially on volnyankam and especially from Japanese sites and sites "about everything". I would very much like to see the data on distribution and statuses confirmed by some own research. Otherwise, just randomly posted definitions can do more harm than help. On the one hand, it's nice that the page on volnyanki is constantly updated, but the further I look at the definitions , the more doubts I have about their correctness, especially in groups that have never been reviewed. Maybe it's time to start revising the accumulated material. Even Holloway has quite a few incorrect definitions. What can I say, .. it happens, he was the first to start these blockages razgr** * ((((

Excuse me, gentlemen interested colleagues, but I would very much recommend - without pressure, however-to be as critical as possible of any information posted on the web, especially on volnyankam and especially from Japanese sites and sites "about everything". I would very much like to see the data on distribution and statuses confirmed by some own research. Otherwise, just randomly posted definitions can do more harm than help. On the one hand, it's nice that the page on volnyanki is constantly updated, but the further I look at the definitions , the more doubts I have about their correctness, especially in groups that have never been reviewed. Maybe it's time to start revising the accumulated material. Even Holloway has quite a few incorrect definitions. What can I say, .. it happens, he was the first to start these blockages razgr** * ((((

Holloway even has "awesome" pictures. There are numerous arctornis almost on the same face. Well, the quality of printing still.
About the "Waves of China" in general, you can add a song!

I've got some people on the subject, too. I've never seen such a goose before.
I think Gynaephora selenitica (Esper, 1789) is not wrong?
28.05.2013г. Vladimir region, Petushinsky district, district, village Starye Omutischi, verkhovoe swamp.

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Excuse me, gentlemen interested colleagues, but I would very much recommend - without pressure, however-to be as critical as possible of any information posted on the web, especially on volnyankam and especially from Japanese sites and sites "about everything". I would very much like to see the data on distribution and statuses confirmed by some own research. Otherwise, just randomly posted definitions can do more harm than help. On the one hand, it's nice that the page on volnyanki is constantly updated, but the further I look at the definitions , the more doubts I have about their correctness, especially in groups that have never been reviewed. Maybe it's time to start revising the accumulated material. Even Holloway has quite a few incorrect definitions. What can I say, .. it happens, he was the first to start these blockages razgr** * ((((

I agree that the Nygmiini tribe in Southeast Asia is still very poorly studied. That is why I practically do not exhibit its representatives here. I still decided to exhibit the material from Borneo, based on Holloway's work. Yes, there are probably some mistakes in it, but it represents a huge step forward in the study of the family and, in my opinion, allows us to use the material collected in Sabah with a certain degree of confidence.
I gave the Japanese site as one of the sources of information in response to a question about the distribution of the species, but the source, alas, is not very reliable. It's really full of inaccuracies even in the definition of exposed instances, not to mention maps.
In this topic, I try to spread the material determined on the basis of the first descriptions. The most reliable definition, of course, should be based on working with types, so I probably defined some taxa incorrectly. I try to keep their number to a minimum and put here only what I am more or less sure of. I would be grateful for any corrections to the definitions.

Holloway even has "awesome" pictures. There are numerous arctornis almost on the same face. Well, the quality of printing still.
About the "Waves of China" in general, you can add a song!

Yeah. I had high hopes for the Volnyanki of China, and when I discovered this work, I was somewhat despondent. I can't say anything about the text, since I don't speak Chinese, but there is a lot of confusion in the tables, and the definition of many taxa does not inspire confidence.

I've got some people on the subject, too. I've never seen such a goose before.
I think Gynaephora selenitica (Esper, 1789) is not wrong?
28.05.2013г. Vladimir region, Petushinsky district, district, village Starye Omutischi, verkhovoe swamp.

Yes, she. Beautiful girl!

Micromorphe linta Moore, [1860] 1858-9
Female-Malaysia, Borneo

Nygmia guttistriga Walker, 1862
Male and Female - Malaysia, Borneo

Ivela ochropoda Eversmann, 1847
Female-Russia, Primorye
leg. KAZAX

Leucoma salicis Linnaeus, 1758
Male and female - Russia, Moscow leg. chebur

Caterpillar Leucoma salicis Linnaeus, 1758. Collected on 25.05.2012 in Moscow. She was infected by a rider and died a few days after being caught.

Leucoma candida Staudinger, 1892
Male and female-Primorye, Russia leg. Kozloff
This species is very similar to the previous one and flies together with it in Siberia (Altai, Yakutia), most likely in Primorye. Both species are found in Japan. Externally, you can distinguish them by putting them on a dark background. In L. salicis, the scales on the wings are much less frequent and the dark background will be very translucent. In L. candida, the deposition of white scales on the wings is much thicker.


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In my opinion, in the south of Primorye, Leucoma candida is more common than Leucoma salicis

In my opinion, in the south of Primorye, Leucoma candida is more common than Leucoma salicis

Did you collect Leucoma salicis in Primorye? And then in the Blue catalog for this region, the question mark is.

Leucoma flavosulfurea Erschoff, 1872
Mountain Central Asian species.
Male - Tajikistan

Female - Uzbekistan