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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 31, 2014 10:21:12 GMT -8
Sorry for the poor quality of the photo : moth damaged under spreading paper ! Caught in French Guyane, I would say that's something like : Rhescyntis hermes ♀,(W.Rothschild,1907), female. But the sample is from Tunda Loma (65 m asl), Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Wingspan : 165 mm. Thank you to give me the moth ID !  |
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 31, 2014 10:38:26 GMT -8
By the way, in the paper where was kept this Rhescyntis female, I found those green "eggs". Some of them where still attached to the end of the moth abdomen. Because I was in Ecuador for a butterflies survey, I had not the proper stuff to manage moths (ammoniac seringe, for example). So, I killed the Rhescyntis in the cyanid jar. May be it was not truly dead when papered. So, my question is : are these green pearls eggs or something else like a parasitic infestation ?  |
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Post by lepidofrance on Jan 31, 2014 10:47:49 GMT -8
Rhescyntis hippodamia hippodamia or, better, Rhescyntis hippodamia colombiana ?
Many thanks !
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Post by oehlkew on Feb 2, 2014 10:03:31 GMT -8
Rhescyntis hippodamia colombiana from western Ecuador.
Those are eggs, but probably dead, maybe not, from cyanide.
Dark marking on forewing at just outsied pm line at curve between produced apex and rest of outer margin is absent in nominate subpecies but present in western colombiana. Hard to see below paper, but it seems to be there.
Bill Oehlke
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