#drepanidae

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Bug of the Sometimes

A very lovely dogwood Thyatirid (Euthyatira pudens) from last moth's blacklighting.

[miyrumiyru]

Daily reminder : you can protect the precious moths by turn off unused lights!

[herpsandbirds]

Clearwing Drepanid Moth (Macrauzata melanapex), family Drepanidae, Philippines

photograph by Bald Guy With a Camera

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Dogwood Thyatirid Moth (Euthyatira pudens)

[eyed-hawkmoth]

yellow horned (achlya flavicornis)

[moths-daily]

could you do hypsidia erythropsalis?

Moth Of The Day #194

Hypsidia erythropsalis

From the drepanidae family. They have a wingspan of 25-30 mm. Their most common habitat has been found to be rainforests. They are native to Australia.

Image sources: [1] [2]

[libraryofmoths]

Moth of the Week

Macrocilix maia Moth

Macrocilix maia

The Macrocilix maia moth is a part of the family Drepanidae. It was first described in 1888 by John Henry Leech as a part of the genus Argyri. It has no recognized common name and is mainly called by its scientific name.

Description

The forewings and hindwings are a matching cream color and slightly translucent. The main attraction of the wings are two mirror images of a fly, one on each forewing. The body of the “fly” is black with red eyes/head and a white accent in the middle of its abdomen. They are outlined in amber and black with amber specks on the outer edge of the forewing called the outer margin. The hindwings have an amber splotch on the innermost edge, called the inner margin, that transitions to black and white as it reaches the corner. This is meant to look like a bird dropping that the flies are eating.

The body is a matching amber/dark brown as the bird dropping to blend in. The antennae are cream.

Wingspan Range: 3.7 - 4.5 cm (≈1.46 - 1.77 in)

Diet and Habitat This moth mainly, feeds on the Chinese Cork Oak as larva and do not feed as adults.

They are found around Asia in Borneo, China, India, Japan, Korea, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Taiwan. This moth prefers habitats like forests and jungles.

Mating The eggs are laid close to the host plant and adults are emerge in May. Mating season is presumably around this time.

Predators This moth is most recognizable by its use of mimicry. It’s wings resemble flies eating bird droppings to make it appear unappealing to predators. It also gives off a bad smell to further sell the act.

Fun Fact The type of camouflage this moths uses is called Batesian mimicry. Named after Henry Walter Bates, Batesian mimicry is when a palatable animal, or one without toxins or poison, evolves to look like an unpalatable/undesirable animal to protect itself from predators.

(Source: Wikipedia, Moth Identification)

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Silvered hooktip moth, Callidrepana gelidata, Drepanidae

Found in Southeast Asia

Photo 1 by budak, 2 by sandralamberts, 3 by gancw1, 4 by geechartier, 5-6 by lawjiabao