Tuesday, 7 April 2020

More Moths from Kuranda, Queensland

Here are some local moths to cheer up your day. These were all photographed at the same place. It has been suggested that perhaps 4000 species of moths occur in the rainforests around Kuranda.

To get an idea of size, the holes on the light sheet are roughly 1 mm across.
All of these moths were photographed at the same locality and within the past 2 weeks.

Click on the photos to enlarge

My world as I see it!
Cosmogonia decorata 
Crocanthes characotis 
Eublemma anachoresis 
Eudocima ?cocalus male 
Pingasa blanda
Tirathaba rufivena
Delgamma pangonia 
Hypena gypsospila 
Pingasa chlora 
Theila siennata 
Spodoptera litura 
Aeolochroma turneri 
Amyna apicipuncta 
Anthela sp 
Asura monospila 
Chaetolopha pseudooxyntis 
Chrysochlororoma  megaloptera  
Cleora goldfinchi
Elusa semipecten
Eumelea sp 
Leucania yu
Pindara serratiliinea?
Phazaca mutans
Bulonga distans 
Cleora costiplaga 
Cosmostola pyrrhogona
Crambidae; Wurthinae
Heterallactis ?stenochrysa 
 Hypena gonospilalis 
Lacalma mniomima
Lamprophaia ablactalis
Glyphodes onychinalis
Megarosticha repetitalis 
Keeping a safe distance: Mocis frugalis
Pantydia sp Noctuidae 
 Glyphodes onychinalis
 Palpita sp 
Maceda mansueta
Phycitinae Pyralidae
 ?Lacera sp 
 ? Tigriodes
Heteroteucha dichroella
 Callimima lophoptera

Casbia fasciata
  2.  Chamaita barnardi 

 Imma sp 
 Spodoptera mauritia 
 Paliga ignealis 
 Pachythrix hampsoni 
 Imma lyrifera Immidae 
 Hyposidra talaca Geometridae 
 Conogethes sp 
 Chorodna strixaria
Eudocima materna 
 Oecophoridae; genus ? 
Ubida sp
Moearchis hypomacra 
Tortricidae; genus ?
 Trigonodes hyppasia 
 Nygmia (Euproctis) actor 
 Naarda xanthonephra 
 Meliattha signfera
 Limacodidae 
Hydriollodes sp 
 Heterallactis stenochrysa
 Crocanthes sidonia 
 Catoria delectaria 
 Casera bella
Asota heliconia

 Trigonobela perfenestrata 
 Spodoptera exempla 
 Oeonisitis altica 
 Agathodes ostentalis 
 Eusabena paraphragma Crambidae
Playing possum; Nygmia (Euproctis) actor 

Tridrepana lunulata Drepanidae 
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1 comment:

  1. Nicholas Fisher8 June 2020 at 20:12

    Hi David,
    A great collection of moths!
    May I suggest a couple of IDs, of ones that are familiar to me in SE QLD/NE NSW:
    The one captioned '?Lacera sp.' is Catocalinae>Heterormista psammochroa...I have seen this on Tamborine Mountain...the pose is very odd, suggests to me it's mimicking a bracket fungus, always face down with the wings cupped to display the transverse markings.
    The moth captioned 'Oecophoridae, genus?' is an Agriophara species, possibly ANIC3. I get Agriophara ANIC4 in dry rainforest in Lismore NSW. Very beautiful when fresh.

    regards,
    Nicholas Fisher

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