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Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam Date: 24th December 2013 Equipment: Nikon D300s with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
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photos with phone - colours distorted under artificial light at night. On laptop, which is black. Transparent wing silver-white, edges greyish, tuft yellowish
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Melonworm Moth
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photos with phone - colours distorted under artificial light at night. On laptop, which is black. Transparent wing silver-white, edges greyish, tuft yellowish
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Woody Hollow, BCP, Austin, Travis Cty, TX USA
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1st observation at this location
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The specific identity of this dark-bodied Diaphania is still a point of discussion among several of us in Texas. Time will tell. First for my yard. This batch of October records is dedicated to the memory of Charles Bordelon (1958 - 2016) whose contributions to Texas lepidoptery are immeasurable. Iâve already encountered a half dozen new species at my porchlight/blacklights in October plus a couple of other very infrequent speces. I have a large number of other October uploads, but I wanted to get this set of new and uncommon species up firstâbefore we get swamped with Big Thicket stuff. The rest will come later.
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The specific identity of this dark-bodied Diaphania is still a point of discussion among several of us in Texas. Time will tell. First for my yard. This batch of October records is dedicated to the memory of Charles Bordelon (1958 - 2016) whose contributions to Texas lepidoptery are immeasurable. Iâve already encountered a half dozen new species at my porchlight/blacklights in October plus a couple of other very infrequent speces. I have a large number of other October uploads, but I wanted to get this set of new and uncommon species up firstâbefore we get swamped with Big Thicket stuff. The rest will come later.
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Forewing length between 8mm-9mm
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Forewing length between 8mm-9mm
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A bit of a ragged individual at porchlight; first of the season for this species.
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"Photographed at night as it was nectaring on crucita (""Eupatorium"" odoratum). Two individuals were present. Very similar to Palpita quadristigmalis, but in that smaller species, the wings are even more translucent and there are four small dark dots immediately along the lower edge of the brown forewing leading stripe on each wing. FW length ~15mm. Update (11/5/14): Adding a second image of the same moth taken about 30 sec. later on the same flower. ***Note the small dark discal dots on the FW, not visible in the first image. I don't know what this does for the identification!"
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"Photographed at night as it was nectaring on crucita (""Eupatorium"" odoratum). Two individuals were present. Very similar to Palpita quadristigmalis, but in that smaller species, the wings are even more translucent and there are four small dark dots immediately along the lower edge of the brown forewing leading stripe on each wing. FW length ~15mm. Update (11/5/14): Adding a second image of the same moth taken about 30 sec. later on the same flower. ***Note the small dark discal dots on the FW, not visible in the first image. I don't know what this does for the identification!"
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At porchlight. A typical individual with (a) no dark dots on FW (cf. Palpita spp.), and (b) sharply bicolored orange and white front tibia. Here's the MPG page for the species.
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"Experimented with the new black light and the ""Larry's light house"" from BioQuip: https://www.bioquip.com/search/DispProduct.asp?pid=2878 It's quite nice, although my pictures still aren't too hot... :( I have my camera on the finest settings, but they still tend to come out blurry. Ah well. I'll keep experimenting... Also, I think this is the right species: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1001387"