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Eudocima aurantia
Brown with leaf-like wings.
Secondary forest.
Congratulations Benigno for a wonderful SOTD!
Please consider following Vernon's suggestion for the scientific name:
Eudocima aurantia
Regards!
Congratulations Benigno on this SOTD and welcome to Project Noah! Please consider adding this spotting to the mission "Moths in the Philippines" at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1591... . Looking forward to more spottings from you. Thanks!
Welcome to the community Benigno, your incredible moth is causing quite a stir - we can't wait to see what else you have in store for us! Congratulations, your very first contribution has been chosen as spotting of the day!
This fruit-piercing moth displays amazing mimicry, looking at first glance like a dead leaf.
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Nuwan, the specimen is a female E. aurantia as I stated previously. Agnes, the link with Ramel Cabale's specimens is correct also. The other jp link with 2 spread E. aurantia from Malaysia is correct, but the green specimen from Borneo is absolutely not aurantia, most probably it is a specimen of Eudocima sikhimensis (Butler). There are errors posted everywhere on the net. Never assume any determination on any site is accurate, especially from a really bad image like the one from Borneo. You may have noticed, the more I look, the more errors I find out there on the net. I learned nearly 50 years ago, there are no real experts. When you investigate things yourself, only you will then become the real expert.
Spotted on May 22, 2013
Submitted on May 28, 2013
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