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OMG... took me a while to let it sink in.!
im speechless and honoured (not once... but twice.!) at the same time.!
i would like to sincerely thank Project Noah and all the Rangers for giving me the platform to showcase my work.!
@ForestDragon thanks.!
agree with @Ashutosh Dudhatra
Hindumanes karnatakaensis Ref: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-D-...
Epeus flavobilineatus Ref: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations...
@Gaia80 as for that "fungi"... it was just debris stuck there which i removed later on.!
@Gaia80 the snout of the male is different... it has a pair of mandibles.!
see here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/orionmyste...
sexual dimorphism: https://beetlesinthebush.com/2011/10/07/...
@Mark Ridgway and all PNRs... thanks for the honour again.! :)
@ornithoptera80 : thanks for the suggestion... but i think i would stay at the genus level for now as the moth is rather on the worn side as it was a dead specimen... thus making a positive species ID difficult.!
@Mark Ridgway : now that you mentioned it... i realised that they were at "loggerheads"(?) for hours on end and just moving slightly from their spots... even when i turned the branch they were on over and over again to get some shots.!
@ornithoptera80 : thanks.!
@Mark Ridgway... according to a study paper (link below)... "Icerya seychellarum was described by Westwood (1855) from the Seychelles"
ref: https://bioone.org/journals/African-Ento...
@Mark Ridgway @Saturniidae27
thanks for the input... posting duly edited and updated.!
