Lappet Moths (male & female)

Description:

Lasiocampidae; Pinarinae; Streblote; Streblote castanea (Swinhoe, 1892). On Feb 2nd., I collected 4 caterpillars from a Ben Oil Tree in our backyard and looked after them until they all pupated. My purpose was to be able to identify the moths, when they eventually eclosed, because I was quite unable to do so, definitively, from the larvae alone - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/19... On Feb 27th., one of the four moths eclosed. It turned out to be Streblote castanea and it was a male - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/64... So, that left me with 3 pupae. So I anxiously watched over them, hoping that they would all emerge successfully and, with a bit of luck, one of them might be a female. My pictures show the result. Please see Notes below.

Habitat:

These three Lappet Moths , when still larvae, were in a group of four spotted in our backyard on a Ben Oil Tree (Moringa oleifera) locally called Malungay. Plant identification - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Malunggay.h.........

Notes:

Pic #1. A newly eclosed female in the cage next to its (now empty) chrysalis. It emerged on Mar 1st., just before 11:45 p.m. (I had last checked it at 11:30 p.m.). Pic #2. Another female sitting at the top of its chrysalis at 11:50 p.m. I did not manage to take a picture as it emerged because all my attention was on the first one. By the time I picked up my camera, it was fully eclosed. Pics #3. & #4. Releasing the two females in our backyard in the morning. Pic # 5. A male pictured on Mar, 3rd., at 07:14 a.m. beside its chrysalis (last checked at about 6:30 a.m.). Pic # 6. The male on the open lid of the cage, seconds before it flew off into our backyard.