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Spilosoma borneensis

Spilosoma borneensis

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I found this in lowland forest @ " Kondang Merak beach - South Malang - East Java - Indonesia.

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17 Comments

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

I've upload some more photographs, Jakubko.

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

The moth in the link looks almost exactly like Mona's, although I do not think the ID is correct. I checked BOLD Systems, and a few other websites and they did not show a moth in Euproctis or Lymantriinae with this abdominal patterning, thoracic patterning, or forewing patterning. I'm certainly not sure, although this looks much like a Ischnarctia. However, I cannot find any records of the location of the Ischnarctia genus, except that its type specimen was found in Tanzania. I think you may share some species with Tanzania, but I'm not sure about any species in this genus. However, there are more species of Ischnarctia than just the one listed on BOLD Systems.
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/r...

AgnesAdiqueTalavera
AgnesAdiqueTalavera 10 years ago

:) :) Thanks to Juan Manuel's spotting similar to this one, where he provided the potokito link - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/246... . Check pic#2, very similar to your moth :)

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

That's the one :) Thank you so much Agnes :)

AgnesAdiqueTalavera
AgnesAdiqueTalavera 10 years ago

Could this be your pretty moth? - http://potokito-myshot.blogspot.com/2012...

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

Agnes, could you help me to I.d this moth.. I try to check from Lasiocampidae, but the body color is diffrent.. Are they also changing plumage when matting seasion, like a bird?

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

Thank you Jakubko.. :)

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

The hindwings protruding from the forewings suggest this moth may be in the family Lasiocampidae. Thank you very much for these photos, it helps a lot.

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

I've upload more pictures..

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

It's quite small Jacubko.. I will upload other picture..

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

Thank you, Mona! How large was this moth?

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

I just upload a new photo Jakubko

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

Yes I have.. Ok Jakubko

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

Hi Mona! What a beautiful moth! Do you have a few more angles of this moth you could upload?

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

Jacobko.. Would you please I.d this, maybe you know.. Thank you very much.

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

Yeah, it's very beautiful.. It's like a Tussock Moth, but I'm not sure which one.. Thank you Gilma..

Nice looking...Moth? very interesting, hope you get an ID, Mona Pirih.

Mona Pirih
Spotted by
Mona Pirih

Indonesia

Spotted on Jul 7, 2013
Submitted on Jul 8, 2013

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