Fruit-piercing moth

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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/15913873 . Looking forward to more spottings from you. Thanks!

Great spotting - congratulations!

Congratulations on this SOTD Benigno

congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

congrats

Congratulations Benigno. Great find!

Congratulations Benigno! You must be very happy :-)

Awesome spotting! Congratulations Benigno!

Congratulation on this awesome SotD!

Congratulation great spot !

The best mimicry yet ! Congratulations - well deserved !!

Congrats on the SOTD!

Many congratulations! Love this moth.

wow... amazing. congrats!

Congratulations Benigno!

Congratulations Beniqno.. It's amazing spotting.. !!

Wow! Amazing spotting! Congratulations and welcome to the community!

Congratulations Benigno !!

Congratulations Benigno for the SOTD!

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. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152862085365603&set=a.10152383557885603.943728.10150120463815603&type=1 https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/339952168339648512

wow, what an enchanting little moth, great spotting

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.

Great spot!

Agnes, that article costs about $1200.00 US to obtain a reprint copy of. Luckily, I have an autographed reprint from Zilli in my library. Thought the images leave a lot to be desired in this Landes Museum pdf version. I am surprised it is available on the net. This partial revision by Zilli & Hogenes in 2002 addressed the old world species as those authors were unable to obtain the new world Eudocima species for their study. Zilli and I have a long term collaborative project hoping to revise the genus worldwide and illustrate both sexes of all the described species in color, something that has never been done before. Among the material we have already accumulated are perhaps 5-6 new undescribed Eudocima species and we are always seeking additional dried papered Eudocima specimens for our studies. If it were easy, anyone could do it. I can be contacted by E-mail: [email protected]

Such an amazing collection Vernon, and I have just started pouring over your drawers! I was also reading this 2002 paper, but I think this may have been outdated already - http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/Quad_5_0153-0207.pdf.

Thank you Vernon, Agnes :-)

Agnes, I looked at the 4 links you provided for aurantia. I note there are 10-12 species of Eudocima missing from the list on Bold. Also, it appears one or two of the images listed as aurantia are not aurantia, but rather appear to be a similar looking species Eudocima behouneki Zilli and Hogenes described in 2002. Bold is filled with misinformation, because anyone can post to the site without any knowledge whatsoever. And this is not just Eudocima that has this problem, but just about any species on that site.

Agnes, I have thousands of Eudocima from the Republic of Philippines including 100+ specimens of E. aurantia from many island locations in the Republic of Philippines alone. I also have aurantia from Sumatra, Papua, Malaysia, North Viet Nam, New Guinea, Australia, Sumbawa Island, Java, Thailand, etc. Here is a link to a picture of one of my 2 drawers of E. aurantia on my public Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=303082416477171&set=pb.100003262452539.-2207520000.1369743707.&type=3&theater

Nuwan, I agree with Vernon on the species, Eudocima aurantia. Images at BOLD Systems and Moths of Borneo sites match that of the spotting's. Although these sites do not mention Philippines in the species' distribution, jpmoth site has an image taken from Leyte, Philippines. http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=70294 http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/calpini/calpini_4_6.php http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/09_CALPINAE/04_Eudocima/Eudocima%20aurantia/Eudocima_aurantia.htm http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/02_EREBIDAE/09_CALPINAE/04_Eudocima/Eudocima%20aurantia/Eudocima_aurantia_0209000003.jpg

Amazing.

Eudocima aurantia (Moore) ♀

Beautiful, ideal for this mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8015991

Sure that isn't a leaf?

Incredible!