Could someone please help with the ID of these two moths? Thanks!
No. 1 is a most amazing fly!
No. 2 is Amata stellaris (Moths of Borneo, part 6, p. 13); Arctiidae, Syntominae.
wow.. the antennas are like..
like.. two huge booms stuck on my head..
That fly reminds me of a 'joke' photo I saw recently (which I DO NOT approve of, by the way). It is obviously two pipecleaners attached to a weevil head attached to a cactus leaf with two fly's wings added on for show!
That's really a very strange looking fly! Besides the antennae, the abdomen also looks very strange.
No, it didn't fly. I wonder if it ever could. It was only walking clumsily.
Tang, do you need an ID for the fly for record purposes? If so, I can post it on Insectnet. One can usually get at least a partial ID there, and a bit of googling thereafter normally works. I, for one, would be very intetrested.
Yes, please! I could not find anything close to the strange looking fly in my guide books.
Do flies have plumed antennae?
Moth flies (http://bugguide.net/node/view/8646) (Family Psychodidae) and Mosquitoes (http://www.cirrusimage.com/flies_Aedes_vexans_mosquito.htm) (Family Culicidae) do.
Moth flies (http://bugguide.net/node/view/8646) (Family Psychodidae) and Mosquitoes (http://www.cirrusimage.com/flies_Aedes_vexans_mosquito.htm) (Family Culicidae) do. Cool! Can't get over the fact that such strange things exist.
I'm sorry, Tang, but unless they come up with further suggestions, it will have to remain a UFO.
Thanks a lot for your help, Les.
The fly has a body length of about 8mm, excluding antennae.
Thanks, Tang. That rules out the Strepsiptera. I'll add the size to my request and see if anything else comes up.
Could be Drosicha corpulenta (http://www.luxflower.net/shownews.asp?id=856) (Family Margarodidae).
The picture on the linked page shows a male on the left and a female on the right.
So it's not a fly.
I'll stick to doing the moths!!
Does anyone know why it has such a strange abdomen?
While I'll also stick to doing the dragonflies, I would get curious about the amazingly looking insects of the other orders.