mike
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Post by mike on Feb 9, 2012 9:57:10 GMT -8
Hi Is that possible to identify this specimens it look like a Sphingidae but not sure. The specimens is from Cameroon Attachments:
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Post by thanos on Feb 9, 2012 19:12:47 GMT -8
Not Sphingid ,- it looks like a big Notodontidae species.
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Post by mike on Feb 11, 2012 13:33:52 GMT -8
Okay, thank you very much I was sure that was a sphingidae by the antenna.
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Post by davidboot on Feb 12, 2012 9:48:45 GMT -8
looks to me to resemble a large footman by wing and body
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Post by leptraps on Feb 12, 2012 18:17:41 GMT -8
It is a primitive moth, either Pachymeta lanborni or Taragama Mesozoic or something similar and a female at that. I have a picture of the creature in my library, but I cannot locate it.
Ten years from now I will stumble onto it and I will not be able to remember why I remembered what I can't remember when I do remember. Did I say that right??
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Post by africaone on Feb 13, 2012 0:17:08 GMT -8
It is the Notodontidae
Scaeopteryx curvatula (Rothschild, 1917)
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Post by downundermoths on Feb 13, 2012 6:10:59 GMT -8
For my money I would say this is one of the Afroplitus species, Notodontidae...
Barry
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Post by thanos on Feb 13, 2012 22:50:12 GMT -8
When I wrote above about Notodontidae, I was thinking(in addition to the Notodontid characteristics in the morphology of this specimen -the dented outer margin of forewings close to anal angle,the lighter patches and the hair on about the middle of the inner margin on forewings,the camouflaging dull colors and patterns of forewings which make them look like dead leaves or tree trunks when at rest,the mainly white hindwings which are in contrast with the dark forewings,etc- ) of a species from the genus Afroplitis (which means African Hoplitis), as I've seen some species in this genus quite similar to the specimen above,but still different.
The type species for the genus Afroplitis Kiriakoff, 1964 is Hoplitis dasychirina Gaede , 1928 . The type species of Scaeopteryx Kiriakoff, 1963 is Hoplitis curvatula Rothschild , 1917 . These 2 genera must be closely related. I can't find a pictured specimen of Scaeopteryx curvatula so to compare it with this specimen. Maybe 'curvatula' ,as it contains 'curv' , wants to show the curved forewings of this species..And the specimen above does have curved forewings.
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Post by africaone on Feb 14, 2012 1:03:15 GMT -8
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