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Cyana nigroplagata (female), Minggre, Arfak Mountains, Papua Looks similar to this other species:<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/157600/cyana_nigroplagata_male_minggre_arfak_mountains_papua.html" title="Cyana nigroplagata (male), Minggre, Arfak Mountains, Papua"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2/157600_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=%2F73h4ZfCHrdSfYaio6B39Yd6mmo%3D" width="140" height="152" alt="Cyana nigroplagata (male), Minggre, Arfak Mountains, Papua Arfak Mountains,Australia (continent),Cyana nigroplagata,Geotagged,Indonesia,Minggre,New Guinea,Papua,Papua 2023,Spring,Vogelkop,West Papua,Western New Guinea" /></a></figure> Arfak Mountains,Australia (continent),Cyana nigroplagata,Geotagged,Indonesia,Minggre,New Guinea,Papua,Papua 2023,Spring,Vogelkop,West Papua,Western New Guinea Click/tap to enlarge

Cyana nigroplagata (female), Minggre, Arfak Mountains, Papua

Looks similar to this other species:

Cyana nigroplagata (male), Minggre, Arfak Mountains, Papua Arfak Mountains,Australia (continent),Cyana nigroplagata,Geotagged,Indonesia,Minggre,New Guinea,Papua,Papua 2023,Spring,Vogelkop,West Papua,Western New Guinea

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  1. View Christine Young's profile
    Christine Young
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    If you look at that species on the following website, the photo of the female (in the upper left of the page) is very similar to your moth, so maybe they are the same species. It must be in the same genus, at least.

    https://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Erebidae/Arctiinae/Cyana/Cyana%20nigroplagata.htm     Posted one year ago
    1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
      Ferdy Christant
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      That clears it up. When going through large sets of species, one tends to see the cover photo only, which in this case showed the male.

      Thanks again!       Posted one year ago
      1. View Christine Young's profile
        Christine Young
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        Yeah, it's confusing because you don't know which species have an accurate cover photo, and which ones have variability or sexual dimorphism. Posted one year ago

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The Cyana nigroplagata

"Cyana nigroplagata" is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1910. It is found in New Guinea.

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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Feb 11, 2024. Captured Oct 19, 2023 20:31 in WW93+WG Minggre, Arfak Mountains Regency, West Papua, Indonesia.
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  • NIKON D850
  • f/16.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO800
  • 105mm

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