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Unknown Moth

Photo by Tiz
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Field Notes

Description:

3-4 cm wingspan.

Habitat:

Found during night at a Lodge in Mlawula nature reserve.

Notes:

Tose pictures are showing three different moths. Same family for sure, but it is even the same species?

Species ID Suggestions

Moth

Poloma angulata
KateBraun
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Monkey moth

Hemijana variegata

Reference Link
Ornithoptera80
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Comments (2)
Ornithoptera80
Very nice find! All the specimens you found in the pictures are males, and the species is Hemijana variegata.
KateBraun
Identification confirmed by Rolf Oberprieler. All four photos are most likely of the same species, the last one has just lost a lot of its scales.

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Mlawula Nature Reserve
Photographed
PublishedNovember 16, 2013

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