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Plutodes flavescens Butler, 1880
Yellow color wings with dark red spot (looks like dog's paw).about 40mm wingspan.
Broad leaf forest (sub tropical forest)
Thanks, Ava, Bayucca and Carol for your comments. Ava and bayucca in most of my spottings which are identified I always try to get whole information. Its important for my study as well as for the viewers. anyway Thanks.
Thanks Ava, good point and it is important information. But I suggest that these informations might added in the description section, not in the field of the scientific name. It might irritate the search engines.
IrungbamJatishworSingh, I like that you do the WHOLE scientific designation, including the first describer (Butler in this case) and the year it was first described.
WOW! This is so very unique and I have been seeing a lot of moths from around the world. I love it!
Lovely Moth @IrungbamJatishworSingh please add it to the mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1271...
@Dominik agree with Plutodes flavescens don't know much about the species or even genus :(
@Nuwan: What do you think about the ID? Plutodes flavescens?? Do you know this species?
Might be Plutodes flavescens? But I agree, it is probably not possible to get closer than the genus. Plutodes flavescens is the most common one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutodes_fl...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29954808@N0...
Quite a few species of Plutodes on the BOLD site. Most of them have a yellow vertex (top of the head). Many forms are included which have not been allocated to a named species, indicating that there may be quite a few species still to be described.
Lovely spotting. Seems as though someone has put Henna designs on the moth :-)
Spotted on Jun 3, 2012
Submitted on Aug 3, 2012
