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Tiger Moth Nyctemera sp.

Nyctemera sp.

3 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Consobrina Tiger Moth
Nyctemera consobrina consobrina http://www.science.uva.nl/entomol/ROBfoto's/CONSOBRINACON.jpg
TicThapanya
TicThapanya 10 years ago
Tiger Moth
Nyctemera sp. Nyctemera
Marbled White Moth
Nyctemera coleta Nyctemera coleta


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Hi Amal, I agree with bayucca's suggested ID - Nyctemera consobrina consobrina. "The recently revised N. consobrina (Hopffer, 1874) is synonymized with simulatrix." - taken from http://www.science.uva.nl/entomol/Nyctem....

AmalludinSyahKono
AmalludinSyahKono 10 years ago

I am so confused as well. . . sorry just picture this. . . I use only conclusion genus :)

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 10 years ago

sorry i didn't notice that bayucca, i also think it's better not go to species level ld only with this photo.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Nuwan, did you notice, that in my link the name on the picture is actually Nyctemera simulatrix consobrina, in the text and on the linktext it is Consobrina consobrina. Hmm, what's correct now? Did they renamed it again?? Article is from 1995, so quite "old"...
Personally I cannot separate Simulatrix simulatrix from Consobrina consobrina and the one posted. So I suggest, that we leave it as Nyctemera sp. What do you think, Nuwan?

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 10 years ago

i cannot find Nyctemera consobrina in jpmoths site, however i can add another species to the list Nyctemera simulatrix.. note that there are few variations seen even in the same species..
http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Mot...

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Please, Nuwan, can you check this one!
Thanks, Noel for your input of Coleta. I had this also on my screen, but I am sceptic. There should be a second white stripe on the forewing and the white band has these typical 3 separate "sausage-like" (sorry the expression) patches. The hindwing looks in my eyes too "fingery" for being Coleta:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nyctem...
What do you guys think??

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

The perspective is tricky to judge the white band on the forewing. There are some candidates, but I can't be 100% sure, if I cannot see the forewing clearly:
Nyctemera latistriga:
http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Mot...
Note the white stripe next to the white band.
Nyctemera sonticum:
http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Mot...
Slightly scalloped white parts of the hindwing looks not bad, but the patches on the forewing do probably not exactly match with your white band. Looking closer to the scalloped hindwing, I think in Sonticum it is too scalloped.
Nyctemera baulus nisa looks very close if you look at this link.
http://www.science.uva.nl/entomol/ROBfot...
But if you look at other ones, you would kick out Baulus, not really matching.
Nyctemera lacticinia has a too straight white wand compared to yours:
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-6/arct...
So finally I got my closest one:
Nyctemera consobrina consobrina:
http://www.science.uva.nl/entomol/ROBfot...
http://www.science.uva.nl/entomol/Nyctem...

outsidegirl0
outsidegirl0 10 years ago

could be a moth??????????

AmalludinSyahKono
AmalludinSyahKono 10 years ago

no bayucca. . . This photo I took just one time :)

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Do you have another picture with the forewing?

TicThapanya
TicThapanya 10 years ago

beautiful species, I think, it's a tiger moth, but i can identified only genus level, wait the specialists for go further identification.

AmalludinSyahKono
AmalludinSyahKono 10 years ago

help me for id

AmalludinSyahKono
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AmalludinSyahKono

Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia

Spotted on May 19, 2013
Submitted on May 19, 2013

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