Moths

Crorema setinoides (Holland, 1893)
Male and female - Namibia


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The genus Lymantica Collenette, 1936 unites a very diverse group of Madagascar volnyanki, which in the future will definitely need to be sorted into several genera. This process has already been started by A. Schintlmeister. In his 2004 work on the genus Lymantria, he assigned some of the species from Lymantica to this genus and separated them into a separate subgenus, Griveaudtria. He suggested leaving the remaining species in the genus Lymantica for now.

Lymantica velutina Mabille, 1879
Male (65mm) - Madagascar
Here and further in parentheses - wingspan.



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Lymantica canariensis Kenrick, 1914
Male (35mm) - Madagascar

Dasychira hedilacea Collenette, 1936
Male (28mm) - Madagascar

Porthesaroa lithoides Collenette, 1936
Male (25mm) and female (34mm) - Madagascar


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Euroctis producta Walker, 1863
Female (34mm) - Madagascar


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A Russian woman from Tajikistan caught by a ripper. Some kind of Calliteara

No, this butterfly is not from the genus Calliteara. This is a male Dasychira ninae Sheljuzhko, 1943. I expose my male from the same point, but with the underside. Wingspan-36mm.

Help identify Limantrium. 1 - Java, 2,3,4-Sulawesi, 5-Bali.

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Help identify Limantrium. 1 - Java, 2,3,4-Sulawesi, 5-Bali.

1. Female Psilochira lineata nycthemera Toxopeus, 1948
2 and 3. Males Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata curvifera Walker, 1866
4. Male Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis celebesa Collenette, 1947
5. Male Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata marginalis Walker, 1862

A couple more. 1. Vietnam. 2. Sulawesi.

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Limantria from Croatia.

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A couple more. 1. Vietnam. 2. Sulawesi.

Vietnam Male Butterfly Lymantria (Beatria) atemeles Collenette, 1932

Limantria from Croatia.

Male Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar Linnaeus, 1758

While on vacation in Sri Lanka, my granddaughter caught a couple of butterflies. Here I put up a volnyanka. From what is available to me like
Arctornis submarginata (Walker, 1855), if there is any clarification, I would be grateful

Carriola ecnomoda (Swinhoe, 1907) Thailand. Khao Sok Nat. Park end of June 2013. Sorry for the not very good quality of the photo.

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Aroa cf. plana Walker, 1855
In fact, Francis Walker described two taxa in 1855: Aroa plana Walker, 1855 from North India and Charnidas junctifera Walker, 1855 from Ceylon.
In 1892, G. F. Hampson in The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Moths. - Vol. I, p. 438 synonymized these two taxa, and for some reason gave priority to the name "Aroa plana", although Charnidas junctifera is described by Walker on page 334, and Aroa plana on page 786.
The synonymization of these two taxa itself raises my doubts. According to the description, this specimen completely falls under Charnidas junctifera Walker, 1855, and the locale is the same. So let it all be here before we can fully deal with it, like
"Aroa" junctifera Walker, 1855
Male (26mm) - Sri Lanka, 1950m n. o. m. leg. V.Sinyaev and A. Schintlmeister


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Aroa cinnamomea Moore, 1879
Male (28mm) and Female (40mm) - Northwest Pakistan leg. V. Gurko

Aroa substrigosa Walker, 1855
Male (31mm) - Northern Thailand, female (38mm) - China, Hainan Island leg. V.Sinyaev

Aroa ochripicta Moore, 1879
Male (25mm) and female (26mm) - Northern Thailand, leg. S. Murzin

Nygmia atrisignata Swinhoe, 1903
Female (40mm) - Malaysia, North Borneo

Happy New Year 2014!!!
As a New Year's card:
Cozola austriaca Semper, 1899
Female (45mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island, leg.Iv Shin


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I suggest that you start making a determinant for the genus Lymantria Hübner, [1819] on this page. Butterflies of this genus are the most studied in the family. The following scientists have contributed to the study of the genus:Bryk, C.L.Collenette, Griveaud, W.Ferguson, J.D.Holloway, S.Korb, Y.Kishida, S.Matsumura, M.G.Pogue, P.W.Schaefer, A.Shintlmeister, Strand, Swinhoe и др. The genus is found on four continents (North America, Eurasia, Australia, and Africa), but is most diverse in Southern China, Indochina, the islands of Southeast Asia, the Himalayas,and Madagascar.
The genus has about 170 known species. In his 2004 paper, A. Schintlmeister divided this giant genus into 12 subgenera. The author divided these subgenera into two groups based on key differences in the structure of the female genital structures. The first group includes two subgenera: Porthetria (Hübner, [1819]) and Papuatria (Shintlmeister, 2004). Females of this group are characterized by a relatively short ovipositor and the presence of a large number of small hairs at the end of the abdomen. Eggs are laid openly in large clutches and covered with hairs from the abdomen. У остальных подродов (Lymantria (Hübner, [1819]), Beatria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Nyctria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Syntria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Pantria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Collentria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Spinotria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Sarantria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Griveaudtria (Shintlmeister, 2004), Pyramocera (Butler, 1880)) the ovipositor is very long. Eggs are usually laid in cracks in the bark. Many subgenera represented by one or several species are very peculiar and can be separated into independent genera in the future. One of the most interesting features of the genus is the presence of pink in the coloration of most species.

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Porthetria (Hübner, [1819])
Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar (Linnaeus, 1758)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar dispar (Linnaeus, 1758) Russia (Moscow region), Kazakhstan,Russia (Ivanovo region), Croatia,Russia (Chelyabinsk region), Ukraine (South Coast) Ukraine (Sevastopol) Caterpillar from the Moscow region Doll from the Moscow region
________Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar asiatica (Vnukowskij, 1926) lectotype, Russia (Primorye), Russia (Amur region)
Lymantria (Porthetria) obfuscata (Walker, 1865) Afghanistan
Lymantria (Porthetria) storozhenkoae (Korb et Pozhogin, 2012) Kazakhstan
Lymantria (Porthetria) schaeferi (Shintlmeister, 2004) China
Lymantria (Porthetria) apicebrunnea (Gaede, 1932) Vietnam
Lymantria (Porthetria) aryama (Moore, 1859) Northern India
Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata (Stoll, 1782)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata lunata (Stoll, 1782) Indonesia (Buru Island, Seram Island)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata curvifera (Shintlmeister, 2004) Indonesia (Sulawesi Island), Philippines (Leyte Island)
Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis (Collenette, 1933)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis buruensis (Collenette, 1933) Indonesia (Buru Island)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis celebesa (Collenette, 1947) Indonesia (Sulawesi Island)
Lymantria (Porthetria) brotea (Stoll, 1781)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) brotea brotea (Stoll, 1781) Malaysia
________Lymantria (Porthetria) brotea lepcha (Moore, 1879) Vietnam (male), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
Lymantria (Porthetria) ganara (Moore, 1859)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) ganara ganara (Moore, 1859) Malaysia
________Lymantria (Porthetria) ganara xiaolingensis (Chao, 1985) Vietnam (male) Vietnam (female)
Lymantria (Porthetria) plumbalis (Hampson, 1895) Thailand
Lymantria (Porthetria) praetermissa (Collenette, 1933) Indonesia (Java Island)
Lymantria (Porthetria) brunneiplaga (Swinhoe, 1903) Malaysia, Philippines (Leyte Island)
Lymantria (Porthetria) orestera (Collenette, 1932) Thailand, Mainland Malaysia (TL)
Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata (Moore, 1879)
________Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata bivittata (Moore, 1879) The entire development cycle of the species (Southern Thailand) Northern Thailand, Vietnam
________Lymantria (Porthetria) bivittata marginalis (Walker, 1862) Malaysia (Borneo, Sabah)
Lymantria (Porthetria) rikiosatoi (Schintlmeister, 2004) Indonesia (o.Timor)
Lymantria (Porthetria) narindra (Moore, 1859) Malaysia (Borneo, Sabah) Malaysia, Indonesia (Java Island)
Lymantria (Porthetria) sapaensis (Kishida, 1998) Thailand

Lymantria (Hübner, [1819])
Lymantria (Lymantria) monacha (Linnaeus, 1758) Species development cycle, Russia (Moscow region, Primorye), Portugal
Lymantria (Lymantria) similis (Moore, 1879)
________Lymantria (Lymantria) similis similis (Moore, 1879) Nepal, Laos
________Lymantria (Lymantria) similis monachoides (Shintlmeister, 2004) China (Sichuan)
Lymantria (Lyinantria) concolor (Walker, 1855)
________Lymantria (Lyinantria) concolor concolor (Walker, 1855) Vietnam, Bhutan
________Lymantria (Lymantria) concolor septentrionalis (Schintlmeister, 2004) China (Shaanxi)
Lymantria (Lymantria) ossea (Toxopeus, 1948) Indonesia (Java Island)
Lymantria (Lymantria) alexandrae (Schintlmeister, 1994) Malaysia
Lymantria (Lymantria) demotes (Collenette, 1947)
________Lymantria (Lymantria) demotes seramensis (Schintlmeister, 2004) Indonesia (o.Seram)
Lymantria (Lymantria) subrosea (Swinhoe, 1903)
________Lymantria (Lymantria) subrosea singapura (Swinhoe, 1906) Thailand, Malaysia (Borneo, Sabah), Philippines (Leyte Island)
Lymantria (Lymantria) semperi (Shintlmeister, 2004) Philippines (Leyte Island)
Lymantria (Lymantria) semicincta (Walker, 1855) Northern India, Laos
Lymantria (Lymantria) argyrochroa (Collenette, 1936) China (Sichuan)
Lymantria (Lymantria) dissoluta (Swinhoe, 1903) China (Henan, Jiangxi)
Lymantria (Lymantria) moesta (Swinhoe, 1903) Northwest India, Pakistan
Lymantria (Lymantria) sinica (Moore, 1879)
________Lymantria (Lymantria) sinica sinica (Moore, 1879) China (Hainan Island)

Beatria (Shintlmeister, 2004)
Lymantria (Beatria) marginata (Walker, 1855) Northern India
Lymantria (Beatria) beatrix (Stoll, 1791) Indonesia (Java Island)
Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini (Schintlmeister, 2004)
________Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini hauensteini (Schintlmeister, 2004) Thailand, Vietnam
________Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini ricardae (Schintlmeister, 2004) China (Shaanxi)
Lymantria (Beatria) atemeles (Collenette, 1932) Vietnam
________________Hybrid Lymantria (Beatria) atemeles x Lymantria (Beatria) hauensteini hauensteini Thailand
Lymantria (Beatria) laelae (Schintlmeister, 2004) Indonesia (West Timor)

Nyctria (Shintlmeister, 2004)
Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura (Moore, 1865)
________Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura mathura (Moore, 1865) Full cycle of development of the species Laos, Northern Thailand Central Nepal
________Lymantria (Nyctria) mathura aurora (Butler, 1877) Russia (Primorye), China (Fujian)
Lymantria (Nyctria) capnodes (Collenette, 1932)
Malaysia (North Borneo, Northern Thailand
Lymantria (Nyctria) naessigi (Shintlmeister, 2004) Philippines (Leyte Island)

Pantria (Shintlmeister, 2004)
Lymantria (Pantria) panthera (Van Eecke, 1928) Vietnam Southern Thailand Laos

Collentria (Shintlmeister, 2004)
Lymantria (Collentria) grisea (Moore, 1879)
________Lymantria (Collentria) grisea kosemponis (Strand, 1914) Vietnam
________Lymantria (Collentria) grisea servula (Collenette, 1936) Laos
Lymantria (Collentria) cryptochloea (Collenette, 1932)
________Lymantria (Collentria) cryptochloea kinoshitai (Schintlmeister, 2004) Philippines (Leyte Island)
Lymantria (Collentria) barlowi (Schintlmeister, 1994) Malaysia
Lymantria (Collentria) fergusoni (Schintlmeister, 2004) China (Jiangxi)

Continuation

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The subgenus Porthetria (Hübner, [1819]) contains more than 40 species. They are distributed from Europe to Australia. One species, Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar, was introduced to North America, where it became the main pest of deciduous trees in the absence of natural enemies. As a result, this type of insect has become one of the most well-known to the general public. The story of a sleepwalker astronomer and escaped caterpillars can be read here: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymantria_dispar. More serious source: Doane, C. C. and McManus, 1981. The gypsy moth: Research toward integrated pest management. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Expanded Gypsy Moth Res. & Development Program, Tech.Bull. 1584, 757 pp. The subgenus is most diverse in South and Southeast Asia. There are three foci where the number of known species exceeds 5: Southern India and Sri Lanka, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia (mainland Malaysia, Sumatra, Kalimatan, and Java). In Russia, the subgenus is represented by one species - Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar (Linnaeus, 1758).

Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar dispar (Linnaeus, 1758)
The subspecies is found in Europe, including the European part of Russia. To the east it reaches the river.The Yenisei River. The southern limit of distribution runs along the Northern slopes of the Caucasus, the deserts of Kazakhstan and the foothills of the Altai. Main features: "the wings of males are mainly gray, females are much larger than males, with a well-developed pattern" S. K. Korb, D. A. Pozhogin, 2012.
Male (41mm) and female (59mm) – leg.Sungaya, Moscow region, Russia

Male (46mm) - Central Kazakhstan, leg. KAZAX Female (71mm) - East Kazakhstan, leg. Konung


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Lymantria (Porthetria) dispar asiatica (Vnukowskij, 1926)
"the northern border of the range runs along the Caucasus Range, the northern spurs of the Tien Shan and the middle taiga subzone in Siberia and the Far East, the southern border runs along the deserts of Asia Minor, as well as the Gobi and Taklamakan, and the western border runs along the Iranian Highlands and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Kopet-Dag, and vostochnaya-along the eastern spurs of the Stanovoi ridge; main features: statistically smaller, male wings from gray-brownish (less often) to brown, females are almost the same size as males, the pattern on their wings is usually developed, but blurred" S. K. Korb, D. A. Pozhogin, 2012. Siberian larch (Larix sibiricae) is indicated as the main food plant in the east of the range. Michael G. Pogue1 and Paul W. Schaefer, 2007
Male (52mm) and female (80mm) from Primorye, leg.sdi
Does not quite fit the description of dispar asiatica: the butterflies of this population are the largest, the female is 1.5 times larger than the male.

In general, the ratio of the size of the male and female as a sign, in my opinion, is not a reliable thing. In depressive years, when the number of species is low and development conditions are unfavorable, females are small (about the size of a male). This phenomenon was observed both in Primorye and in the European part of Russia. As an example:
Male (37mm) and female (40mm) – Russia, Chelyabinsk region, leg.Yakovlev

I myself collected this view on the South Coast. Males flew during the day. The flight is fast. They often change the direction of flight. They try to stay in partial shade. Summer peaks in the morning and afternoon. Sometimes you can see them sitting on the trunks of trees, with which they merge well. At the same point, they flew to me and to the light. Most of all – in the first half of the night.
Male (40mm) – Russia, Crimea, by day, leg.chebur


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Lymantria (Porthetria) schaeferi (Shintlmeister, 2004)
A rare species. It is endemic to the mountains of Central and Southeastern China. It is known from Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces. It occupies an intermediate position between the dispar and xylina species.
Male (46mm) and female (62mm) – China, Jiangxi and Fujian border leg. local collector


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Lymantria (Porthetria) apicebrunnea (Gaede, 1932)
The species is distributed in Southern China and northern Indochina.
Female (60mm) - North Vietnam leg. Dim-va

Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata (Stoll, 1782)
The species is widely distributed on the islands of Southeast Asia. It is also found in northern Australia. In 2004, A. Schintlmeister identified a number of subspecies. However, due to the high individual variability of the species, the identification of subspecies is problematic, which was particularly pointed out in 2007 by the American researchers M. G. Pogue and P. W. Schaefer, who combined all four subspecies described in 2004 (carteri from Bakan Island, curvifera from the Philippine Islands and Sulawesi Island, and ingrami from the Indonesian part about. New Guinea and diversa from northern Australia) are synonyms. At the same time, only a few specimens from the Philippine archipelago of a hundred years ago were studied!

The nominate subspecies Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata lunata (Stoll, 1782) is found in the Moluccas.
Male (55mm) – Indonesia, Buru Island leg. local collector

Male (56mm) - Indonesia, Seram Island leg. local collector

Butterflies inhabiting the Philippine Archipelago also have a high individual variability. Nevertheless, I place here a pair with O. Leyte under the name Lymantria (Porthetria) lunata curvifera (Shintlmeister, 2004). It is simply impossible to assign these butterflies to the nominative subspecies. Although the subspecies curvifera is the most problematic (A. Schintlmeister included in it all lunata populations from the Philippine Archipelago and from! about.Sulawesi. Despite the fact that the type of curvifera is a female without specifying the exact place of collection – " Philippine] Isl."). In general, these butterflies still need to be dealt with.
Male (43mm) - Indonesia, Sulawesi leg. local collector

Male (42mm) and female (74mm) – Philippines, Leyte Island leg.Iv Shin

Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis (Collenette, 1933)
The view is represented by two subspecies. The nominative subspecies is endemic to Buru Island. The subspecies celebesa (Collenette, 1947) is found onSulawesi.

Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis buruensis (Collenette, 1933)
Male (52mm) - Indonesia, Buru Island leg. local collector

Lymantria (Porthetria) buruensis celebesa (Collenette, 1947)
Male (49mm) - Indonesia, Sulawesi Island leg. local collector

Lymantria (Porthetria) brotea (Stoll, 1781)
The species is widely distributed from Northern India through Indochina south to about.Yawai to the Philippine Archipelago in the east. In 2004, A. Schintlmeister identified three subspecies: nominative-found in the south of the Malay Peninsula and throughout the island part of the range and characterized, among other things, by a yellowish color of the hind wings of males; subspecies lepcha, occupying the mainland part of the range of the species and characterized by a pinkish color of the hind wings of males; and subspecies rudloffi, described from Viktor Vasilyevich's collections from the Andaman Islands. Both subspecies were synonymized by the Americans (M. G. Pogue and P. W. Schaefer) in 2007. It is not clear from the work on the basis of what the synonym classification was based on. Only three males from Northern India (collected in 1888) and one male each from Sumatra (collected in 1909) and Mindanao were studied. In general, they did not convince me.
An interesting detail: in the series of several males from Thailand that I have, two specimens were 1.5 times smaller than their counterparts.

Lymantria (Porthetria) brotea brotea (Stoll, 1781)
Male (54mm) – Mainland Malaysia, leg. O.Mosolov


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Lymantria (Porthetria) brotea lepcha (Moore, 1879)
Small male (38mm) - Northern Thailand leg. S. Murzin and female (93mm) - Northern Laos, leg.Victor Siniaev

Large male (54mm) - Vietnam, leg. Dim-va


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Lymantria (Porthetria) ganara (Moore, 1859)
The view is represented by two subspecies. The nominate is found in mainland Malaysia, Sumatra, Kalimanta, Java (TL) and the Philippine Archipelago. The subspecies xiaolingensis is found further north: in Indochina and on Hainan Island.

Lymantria (Porthetria) ganara ganara (Moore, 1859)
Male – Mainland Malaysia, leg. O.Mosolov


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Lymantria (Porthetria) ganara xiaolingensis (Chao, 1985)
Male (37mm) - Vietnam, leg.beetl

The female Morozzz put up on the third page of this topic.

Lymantria (Porthetria) plumbalis (Hampson, 1895)
The species is found in Indochina. Males are often characterized by a grayish background of the forewings and an undeveloped black pattern on them. Although females of this genus are usually much less likely to be born, the opposite is true for this species, so the ratio of males to females in collections is 1: 3.
Male (41mm) and female (62mm – - Northern Thailand leg. S. Murzin


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Lymantria (Porthetria) praetermissa (Collenette, 1933)
A rare species endemic to the western part of the island.Java.
Males from two different mountains (the first (48mm) - from Mount Pangrange, 1625m, leg.Victor Siniaev; second (44mm) - from Mount Halimun, leg. local collector– - Indonesia, west Java


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Lymantria (Porthetria) brunneiplaga (Swinhoe, 1903)
The species is widely distributed in Southeast Asia (from Thailand in the north to about.Java in the south and the Philippine Archipelago in the east). No subspecies were identified throughout its vast range. Judge for yourself how much the specimens from different parts of the range differ.
Male (42mm) – Mainland Malaysia, leg. O.Mosolov

Male (47mm) - Philippines, Leyte Island leg.Iv Shin