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Iridescence Moths Of Paradise Another exotic moth of Papua new Guinea taken at night in the rain on an oil drilling platform where I had to be careful where I trod because there were hundreds of moths littering the floor dozens of different species from a few millimetres to 15 centimetres across the wingspan! Geotagged,Papua New Guinea,Spring Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Iridescence Moths Of Paradise

Another exotic moth of Papua new Guinea taken at night in the rain on an oil drilling platform where I had to be careful where I trod because there were hundreds of moths littering the floor dozens of different species from a few millimetres to 15 centimetres across the wingspan!

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  1. View physignathus's profile
    physignathus
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    What do our excellent team of researchers think this might be? Posted 10 years ago
  2. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    What a gold mine, would this be you :)

    http://www.papua-insects.nl/index/homepage/Borme.jpg

    I'm afraid I'm not of much help with the identification, shallow image searching has led to nothing yet. One cool thing though: when searching for "Papua new guinea moths" on Google image search, several of your photos on this site are already shown :)

    What an amazing country it is. I'm thinking to donate to it when we reach our next milestone.

     Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago
    1. View physignathus's profile
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      A gold mine that hasn't been discovered yet!
      Lol that's not me but the scene looks very familiar, I saw my images on google that's pretty cool! didn't think that would ever happen, might bring more people to the JungleDragon!
      I'm thinking that it would be really cool to do a study on P.N.G moths, spend a month over there I reckon it wouldn't be that hard to find an as yet undiscovered species, call it a Markatiidae Lol       Posted 10 years ago
      1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
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        I've found this dutch organization that actually is crazy about Papua insects:
        http://www.papua-insects.nl/         Posted 10 years ago
        1. View physignathus's profile
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          Wow that is a real cool website thanks! Posted 10 years ago
  4. View WildFlower's profile
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    A similar specimen from Brazil, fam. Crambidae.
    http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=28094     Posted 10 years ago
    1. View physignathus's profile
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      Thanks that's the closest match so far! Posted 10 years ago
      1. View WildFlower's profile
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        More similar species this time from the same region. It is something in the Crambidae: Pyraustinae group.
        https://www.flickr.com/photos/botalex/4185140944/in/album-72157607538370690/
        https://www.flickr.com/photos/botalex/4179853124/in/photostream/
        http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/spil/diaphanalis.html
        http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/50_PYRALOIDEA/Crambidae/63.9_Pyraustinae/framepage_pyraustinae.html         Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago

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Uploaded Feb 17, 2015. Captured Oct 27, 2014 19:42 in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
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  • NIKON D7100
  • f/22.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO100
  • 155mm