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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2014 11:48:50 GMT -8
2 days ago, 22 new species of moths from the genus Ethmia were described in the open-access journal ZooKeys. All the new species are from Costa Rica, and they sure are very good looking! Just take a look at the picture below. If you want to read more about the new species, click here. |
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Post by nomad on Dec 11, 2014 21:53:10 GMT -8
Just goes to show what remains to be discovered.  |
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Post by exoticimports on Dec 12, 2014 6:18:43 GMT -8
There is all sorts of stuff to be discovered in jungles worldwide. I've seen, but failed to capture, a number of larger butterflies that are still undescribed. The canopy is so hard to access, but that's where the action is.
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Post by nomad on Dec 12, 2014 10:50:25 GMT -8
Perhaps that's why Laurie does so well, he is able to get up into the canopy. A lepidopterist Tarzan |
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Post by exoticimports on Dec 12, 2014 12:16:11 GMT -8
Not to knock Laurie, but a four year old with a torn net could find something new in the bush in two days time. I can sit and point at a map and show places that are within 10km of an airport and nobody has ever visited.
I've sat and watched rare butterflies flit around while I had coffee and described a new ssp that had absolutely no reason to be unique, but it was. For every mountaintop conquered there are ten more that haven't been.
For every mountainous island with a touristy beach there is a mountain range hardly explored. Look at Fiji- a half million tourists and I would bet money I could spend a week there (not working I mean, but in the bush) and come out with something new longer than 2cm. There are remote Pacific islands never surveyed, and areas in Asia and Africa that haven't been studied in decades.
Really, all one has to do is get in good with the loggers and rush into the treetop when the tree comes down. We may not like it, but it does bring the canopy within reach!
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Post by nomad on Dec 12, 2014 12:35:47 GMT -8
I believe the remote mountains where Chris Muller and Laurie Wills are able to reach through there sheer determination and a lot of effort have produced a wonderful array of high elevation rarities . No loggers up there, only almost impenetrable terrain where most of the rare butterflies are up in the canopy and if you want them, up you go at some risk, not easy welding a long handle net that high up... You will not find those rarities by staying down by the coast.
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