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Longicella mollisObserver
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Posting on behalf of Mr Lai Kok Hoong a Longicella mollis (from Malaysia), Jan 2019
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Genus RhesalaObserver
limhkDescription
The moth was quite small, barely 1.5 cm across and hiding among the leafy vegetables in our Community Garden at about 5.30 pm. Its brownish colour makes it difficult to detect as it looked like a piece of dead leaf
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Dysphania glaucescenObserver
limhkDescription
Moth has the typical shape of the Dysphania species. Forewing blackish with bluish white spots and streaks. Hind wing pattern similar to the forewing but with half of it having a yellowish background. Quite a large moth and cannot be missed
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Marbled White Moth (Nyctemera adversata)Observer
limhkDescription
The moth was perched on the outside of the KL Butterfly Park, Could be an escapee. It was white with greyish black markings
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Tussock Moths (Subfamily Lymantriinae)Observer
limhkDescription
The moth was sighted about 11.00 am in the morning in our USJ6 Community Garden, perched under the leaf of a Pandanus aromaticus plant.
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Genus ScopulaObserver
limhkDescription
The moth is very small, barely 1.5 cm across and is easily missed by the casual observer. It has a dull whitish upper surface with two brownish patch on the margin of the forewing
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Subtribe LithosiinaObserver
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A small (barely 1 cm) moth, a genus in the family Erebidae. There were four of them flying around the area of the forest at about 10.00 am. Visibly white in colour on the upper surface with a prominent black spot on the forewing.
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Chiasmia emersariaObserver
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The moth was sighted at about 10.30 am, in our USJ6 Community Garde, hiding under our cultivated Fennel plant, Foeniculum vulgare.
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Tropical Swallowtail Moth (Lyssa zampa)Observer
limhkDescription
It is a big moth, and was perched under a palm frond when I took the picture. It is unmistakable with the its greyish upper wing surface, tails on its hind wings and the the two white lines forming a triangle when it is at rest. I have seen it many times when I visited the area and it would be found flying around during the day time.
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Tropical Tiger Moth (Asota caricae)Observer
limhkDescription
This moth came into my house's bathroom and settled on the wall. The wings are about 58 mm in width and is of a gyreyish brown colour with a prominent white spot in the middle of the forewing. The wings veins are lighter in colour than the wing surface itself. The head and thorax are yellow colour and the upper side of thorax is hairy
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Genus EpaenaObserver
limhkDescription
This is a small moth, about 1 cm across, with a whitish upper surface and dark grey mottling pattern over the upper surface of its wings. It tends to hold its wings at an incline from the leaf surface and is quite skittish when approached.
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Foveabathra venustaObserver
limhkDescription
It has a whitish upper wing surface with two rows of wavy pink lines towards the termen and a single shorter row towards the base of the wing. It was not a very big moth, about 1.5 cm, but with a very distinctive pattern. It was sighted resting on a leaf at about 10.42 am in Taman Botani Negara, Shah Alam, Selangor
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Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia)Observer
limhkDescription
The butterfly was first sighted by me in May 2015 near my house in Subang Jaya, Selangor. It was later sighted in the Subang Ria Park by me. But the intensive clearing of its host plant Passiflora suberosa made the butterflies disappear from these sites. I later observed the butterfly in Bukit Cahaya (Taman Botani Negara), in Shah Alam as well as in Persiaran Hulu Langat, Shah Alam, Selangor. It has thus established itself as a feral species in this state since then. The butterfly was first sighted by a butterfly group, Butterfly Circle, in 2009 in Pulau Langkawi. The butterfly is believed to have originated from the butterflies released from Thailand after they were imported to that country. From its original country of South America, this butterfly has come to Asia and slowly moving towards Singapore.
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Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)Observer
limhkDescription
The butterfly was first sighted by me in May 2015 near my house in Subang Jaya, Selangor. It was later sighted in the Subang Ria Park by me. But the intensive clearing of its host plant Passiflora suberosa made the butterflies disappear from these sites. I later observed the butterfly in Bukit Cahaya (Taman Botani Negara), in Shah Alam as well as in Persiaran Hulu Langat, Shah Alam, Selangor. It has thus established itself as a feral species in this state since then. The butterfly was first sighted by a butterfly group, Butterfly Circle, in 2009 in Pulau Langkawi. The butterfly is believed to have originated from the butterflies released from Thailand after they were imported to that country. From its original country of South America, this butterfly has come to Asia and slowly moving towards Singapore.
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Oleander Hawkmoth (Daphnis nerii)Observer
limhkDescription
This moth was seen resting on a pillar in the temporary KTM Station (Subang Jaya) near the Federal Highway at about 1.05 pm. The area was not well lit because of the present LRT-KTM stations construction. I took this shot with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 camera rather than my Canon Powershot SX60 HS. The moth did not move from its position in spite of the many flash shots I took [f/5.8, 1/100 sec, ISO-800]
