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Marbled Tiger

Theages decora

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Field Notes

Description:

There are 6 Theages species, all of which are neotropical in distribution. They are characterised by having marbled wings with dark veins, and their abdomens are tipped with orange. Most species also have a pair of small orange spots behind the head.
Theages decoram is distributed from Guatemala to Peru and south-east Brazil.

Habitat:

This species is found in rainforest and cloudforest at elevations between about 400-2000m.

Reference Links:

Eucereon decora - Overview, BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser

Species ID Suggestions

Marbled Tiger

Theages decoram

Reference Link
NuwanChathuranga
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Comments (8)
pamsai
yes, thanks bayucca... and Nuwan!
NuwanChathuranga
Pam, i know nothing about neotropical moth taxonomy :-) thanks bayucca for the research!
pamsai
Thanks again Nuwan... Seems your ID is the current name for this moth.
pamsai
thank you bayucca. So I'll return it to Nuwan's original suggestion. Naming some of these moths is quite complicated, isn't it? Thanks for all your research.
bayucca
I did a research about the correct name. It seems that we have a conflict. EOL and Bold, usually reliable and trustable resource have it as Eucereon and according to Ollerenshaw 2011 it is Theages. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/lepindex/search/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=34524.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_cardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26beginIndex%3d30%26SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_card%3ddecora%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_cardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26beginIndex%3d30%26SCIENTIFIC_NAME_on_card%3ddecora%26recLimit%3d30 I do not know which one is no the correct one, I guess it is Theages decorata, since this is the most recently updated. Sometimes it takes quite a longtime for updating such huge databases like EOL and BOLD. I will leave a comment on the EOL page that they check the names once more.
pamsai
thanks bayucca. Nuwan I changed the name to the one bayucca suggested. What do you think?
bayucca
To my knowledge, this one is now called Eucereon decoram: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=157882 http://eol.org/pages/29474375/overview

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