| Many of the geometers I find
blend in with tree bark ; some can be mistaken for petals while the
emeralds are often hard to spot against the leaf they are resting on.
I've noticed that the most attractive ones seem to prefer living above
1,000m.
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Two moths I found in the National Park toilet. The one on the left
Metapercnia ductaria
,Walker,
female; on the right
Cleora
alienaria Walker, male |
Hypomecis infixaria Walker, male; blends in perfectly with the tree
bark |
Ennominae - Hypomecis transcissa |
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| Thinopteryx crocoptera assamensis
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Chorodna
metaphaearia Walker, male |
Cusiala
boarmoides Moore, female |
Catoria sp.,
prob. sublavaria Guenée:
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| Ectropis Spp |
Catoria sp., probably olivescens |
Psilalcis sp., probably owadai Sato, the latter not yet recorded
from Thailand |
Peratophyga flavomaculata
Swinhoe |
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Abraxas (subgen. Calospilos) sp., similar to martaria Guenée, neomartaria
Inoue or submartiaria Wehrli |
Zamarada sp.probably excisa Hampson |
Biston luculentus Inoue, male |
Cleora alienaria Walker, female |
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Plutodes flavescens Butler |
Plutodes transmutata Walker (from
India) or very close. Not yet recorded from Thailand |
Fascellina
plagiata |
Cusiala
boarmoides Moore, male |
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Chiasmia
species
(triangulata Hampson or diplotata
F. & R.) |
Chiasmia eleonora Cramer |
Psilalcis breta Swinhoe E |
Krananda semihyalina
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| Ophthalmitis Spp
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Cleora
alienaria Walker, male |
Uliura
kurokoi Sato, male
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Dalima
schistacearia Moore (dark form = f. patnaria)
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Hypochrosis (Marcala) flavifusata Moore |
Hyposidra violescens Hampson, male; |
Cleora alienaria Walker, another colour
variant, male |
Biston bengaliaria Guenée |
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Biston luculentus Inoue, female |
probably Cleora contiguata Moore but need
to dissect the genitalia to be sure |
Amraica recursaria
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Hypochrosis sternaria [Hypochrosini] |
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Biston bengaliaria |
Ourapteryx clara Butler |
Abraxas species |
Naxa seriaria Motschulsky
or N. angustaria Leech . Orthostixini
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Krananda diversa Warren (Ennominae) |
Amraica ferrolavata Walker |
Necyopa sp. May be a new
species |
Plutodes costatus Butler. A common
species. Ennominae |
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Dalima metachromata Walker |
Ourapteryx stueningi Inoue
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Psyra cuneata
Geometridae, |
Hypomecis costaria
Guenée
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| Hyposidra
talaca f. |
Hyposidra
talaca m. |
Astygisa vexillaria
Guenée |
Plutodes
exquisita |
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| Heterostegane subtesellata |
Heterostegane warreni
Prout |
Fascellina
plagiata |
Micronidia simpliciata Moore
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Dalima metachromata Walker, male (see
female above) |
Abraxas (subgen.
Calospilos) sp.
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Corymica spatiosa ♀ |
Corymica deducta Walker |
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Krananda nepalensis Yazaki, female
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Krananda semihyalina
Moore |
Chorodna moorei Thierry-Mieg
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Geometridae - Zeheba aureata |
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Corymica spatiosa |
possibly Chorodna
testaceata Moore |
Hyposidra infixaria Walker |
Alcis decussata Moore |
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Metabraxas regularis Warren rare |
Loxotephria elaiodes Wehrli or close |
Arichanna transfasciata Warren |
Hypochrosis (Marcala) hyadaria Guenée |
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schistacearia Moore |
Xandrames dholaria Moore
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Micronissa delphinaria Swinhoe
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Parapholodes fuliginea (Hampson), female; |
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Alcis sp., female (Enno.) |
Amblychia (Elphos) sp. |
Ophthalmitis
xanthypochlora Wehrli, new ssp. |
Antipercnia belluaria Guenée or possibly Xenoplia contrasqualida Inoue |
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| Ourapteryx
contronivea Inoue |
Celenna festivaria |
Iridoplecta
ferrifera Moore (recently excluded from the Macariini, tribal position
unclear |
either Calcyopa Stüning or
Necyopa Walker |
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Zanclomenophra subusta Warren, rare |
Menophra (Ephemerophila) torridaria Moore |
close to Krananda oliveomarginata |
Astygisa
vexillaria ( Ennominae) |
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Heterostegane subtesellata (Ennominae) |
Arichanna transfasciata (Ennominae) |
Krananda
sp. |
Krananda nepalensis |
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| Krananda
probably semihyalina Moore |
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Krananda semihyalina |
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| Omiza
miliaria Swinhoe |
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Sterrhinae |
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Idea sp. or Scopula sp. |
Idaea macrospila |
Lipomelia subusta |
Problepsis species (near albidior) |
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| Traminda
mundissima Walker
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Idaea sp.? |
Metallaxis semiustus |
Lophophleps sp. ? |
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| Idaea
vacillata |
Chrysocraspeda species |
Traminda
aventiaria |
Craspediopsis inaequata Warren (or very
close) |
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Antitrygodes divisaria |
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Geometrinae |
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Geometridae, Geometrinae - Lophophelma
luteipes |
Geometrinae, Comostola sp. |
Hemithea tritonaria (Geometrinae) |
Chloromachia albisparsa
(Geometrinae) |
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| Chloromachia albisparsa
(Geometrinae) |
Comibaena cassidara (Geometrinae) |
Pelagodes maipoensis (Geometrinae)
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Geometrinae:Ornithospila
lineata (Moore, 1872) |
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| Eucyclodes gavissima (Walker)
Geometrinae (amazing !!! a moth I can identify myself !) |
Geometrinae: Dysphania subrepleta Walker |
Dysphania militaris Often seen flying in the early morning: the group
on the left has
congregated at a waterfall; on the right a lycaenid butterfly goes for a moth
ride |
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| Aporandria specularia
Geometrinae |
Geometrinae: Iotaphora
iridicolor Butler |
Geometrinae:Pingasa chlora Group
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genus Episothalma
Swinhoe, may be E. cognataria (Geometrinae) |
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| Pingasa species |
Eucyclodes semialba Walker or close |
like Berta zygophyxia
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Agathia sp. |
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| Eucyclodes semialba |
Pingasa ruginaria or close
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Iotaphora
iridicolor |
Ornithospila lineata ? |
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| Tanaorhinus kina |
Herochroma thaiensis Inoue
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Osteosema
pastor Butler or close |
Spaniocentra sp? |
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| Pingasa sp. |
Tanaorhinus sp. |
Lophophelma luteipes (Geometrinae) |
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| Iotaphora
iridicolor |
Hemistola sp. |
Spaniocentra hollowayi |
Paramaxates sp. |
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| Paramaxates sp. |
Comibaena sp. |
Paramaxates sp. |
Berta
zygophyxia |
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| Agathia
laetata |
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sp. |
Archaeobalbis cristata |
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Larentiinae |
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moths: possibly a Gymnoscelis species
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Larentiinae,
Genus Sauris or close |
Trichopterigia
pulcherrima (Larentiinae) ? one of the carpet moths |
Phthonoloba decussata (Larentiinae) |
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Macrohastina gemmifera Moore (Larentiinae) |
one of the carpet moths (Larentinae sp.) |
Docirava affinis Warren or close (Larentiinae) |
Palpoctenidia
phoenicosoma Larentiinae |
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Ziridava sp. (may be khasiensis Prout or
kanshireiensis Prout). Larentiinae |
Acolutha
pulchella Hampson |
Acolutha
pictaria |
could
be Ecliptopera muscicolor Moore (Larentiinae) |
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Eois sp. |
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Others |
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Conolophia nigripuncta Hampson (Desmobathrinae |
Leaves are covered with
these moths at the start of the rainy season: Abraxaphantes
perampla Swinhoe- probably belonging to Orthostixinae |
Ozola sp. (Desmobathrinae) |
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| Chlorissa sp.
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Epiplemidae, close to Monobolodes pernigrata |
Chrysocraspeda iole Swinhoe |
Chrysocraspeda iole |
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Hyposidra talaca |
Luxiaria
sp. |
Pseudomiza
cruentaria Moore |
Hypochrosis hyadaria |
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Hypochrosis sp. |
Heterolocha sp., perhaps falconeri |
Satoblephara sp |
Arichanna
sp |
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| Pseudomiza
cruentaria Moore |
Corymica
specularia female |
Abaciscus
tristis |
Pseudomiza
cruentaria |
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| Caberodes
sp. |
Tasta
micaceata |
Hypochrosis near hyadaria |
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