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Moths of the Amazon and Andes         PAGE 3
A gallery of photographs taken by Adrian Hoskins
Photographs taken mainly in the Andes mountains of Peru.
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Unidentified moth 007
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Photographed at San Pedro, Madre de Dios, Peru. Probably in the same genus as unidentified moth 039. I found several similar species, each of which adopted a different resting posture. Some rested with the abdomen held normally, while others pointed the abdomen upwards, or curled scorpion-fashion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unidentified moth 077
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Photographed at San Pedro, Madre de Dios, Peru. Probably a member of the Arctiidae. It appears to be a wasp mimic, but unlike wasps is nocturnal.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Olivaceous Hawkmoth
Xylophanes docilis
SPHINGIDAE
 
Photographed at San Pedro, Madre de Dios, Peru. This was one of about 20 hawkmoth species attracted to fluorescent lighting at Manu Paradise Lodge. Kindly identified by Martin Honey as " a species of Xylophanes, probably docilis".
  
 
 
 
 
 
Unidentified moth 043
ARCTIIDAE
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Photographed at San Pedro, Madre de Dios, Peru. Almost certainly a member of the Arctiidae. The legs are extremely long in proportion to the body and wings.
 
 
 
 
 
Unidentified moth 092
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Photographed at San Pedro, Madre de Dios, Peru. Probably in the family Geometridae.
 
 
 
 
Andean Marbled Hawkmoth
Protambulyx euryalus
SPHINGIDAE
 
Photographed at San Pedro, Madre de Dios, Peru. Kindly identified by Martin Honey.
 
 
 
 
Red-banded Bee-mimic
Aethria haemorrhoidalis
ARCTIIDAE
 
Photographed at Fazenda Rancho Grande, Rondonia, Brazil. This is one of the top moth sites in the world, where "blizzards" of moths are attracted to mercury vapour lamps each night. Bee and wasp mimicry is very common amongst the subfamily Ctenuchinae.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unidentified moth 005
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Photographed at Rio Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil. This specimen was found hanging suspended by it's front legs from a lantern. The very short antennae, long abdomen, wing shape, pattern, colour and resting posture all strongly suggest that this is a member of the HEPIALIDAE, commonly known as Swifts. It could possibly be a member of the genus Phassus ?
 
 
 
 
 
 
No common name
Leuciris fimbriaria
 
Photographed at Rio Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Another example of this species was photographed at San Pedro in Peru, indicating that the altitudinal range extends from 200m to at least 1500m.
 
 
 
 
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