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Genus EpeusObserver
chelseachrPlace
Gedung Rektorat Andi Hakim Nasution, IPB Campus, Lt 1, Babakan, Dramaga, Bogor Regency, West Java 16680, Indonesia (Google, OSM)
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Banded Malaysian Coralsnake (Calliophis intestinalis)Observer
wildpokedexDescription
Yes an alive one
Dark morph
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Genus RhomboderaObserver
r_s_ePlace
Empunak Tapang Keladan, Ketungau Hulu, Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia (Google, OSM)
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Red-billed Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae ssp. scopulinus)Observer
winja102
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gbohneDescription
I found this larva (L: ~1.5cm) beneath the loose but intact bark of a living tree (possibly Damar tree, Dipterocarpaceae) in the tiny patch of lowland rainforest called Dungus Iwul in the west of Java.
Next to this larva there were a couple of Handsome Fungus beetles: www.flickr.com/photos/gbohne/5134864126/
Order: Coleoptera (Beetles, Käfer)
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia LATREILLE, 1802
Superfamily Cucujoidea LATREILLE, 1802
Family: Endomychidae LEACH, 1815 (handsome fungus beetles)
[det. Boris Büche, 2013, based on photos]
Indonesia, W-Java, vic. Jasinga: Dungus Iwul NP, ca. 240m asl., 18.09.2010
IMG_4856 (photo by Guido Bohne)
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Chestnut Weevil (Curculio elephas)Observer
osoandinoDescription
Attracted by the light of my computer screen....
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Predaceous and Parasitic Isopods (Suborder Cymothoida)Observer
zahnerphotoDescription
observation is for the parasite
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White Witch Moth (Thysania agrippina)Observer
gcwarblerDescription
You know you’ve found a large moth when…
- After a 40 year career as a wildlife biologist, you can’t believe what you’re seeing is real.
- Your ruler isn’t long enough to get a good measurement (2nd image), so you go back to get a longer ruler (3rd image) and that isn’t long enough, so you scramble around to find a carpenter’s measuring tape to fully span the wings (4th image).
- Your astonishment is like the joy of a child on Christmas morning; you start laughing and giggling uncontrollably.
- The largest moth on your sheet has a wingspan 40X the size of the smallest one.
- You stay up until 3:30 a.m. journaling about one moth.
- You start taking selfies...with a moth (last image).
To the best of my ability to measure this critter, the wingspan (with a bit of the tip of the right FW missing) is about 27.8 cm, so it would probably be about 28.5 cm (11.2 in) if it were intact. The species is said to have the largest wingspan of any Lepidopteran in the world.
The moth was initially discovered on the sheet by Mary Kay Sexton. I had overlooked it.
To read more of the story, see:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/13211-mothing-in-panama
[See also: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218581553]
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Psyche (Leptosia nina)Observer
sugian_1251Description
A pair of psyche butterfly, Leptosia nina chlorographa, family Pieridae "fly far away to a new place"
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Genus DactylispaObserver
sugian_1251Description
Spiny Leaf Beetle, Rice Hispa (Dactylispa sp.)
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Eastern Emerald Elysia (Elysia chlorotica)Observer
dremsenDescription
Found this guy floating upside down on surface next to piling of MBL dock. First for this location in a long time. Pretty cool. Records from late 1800s had this species in the Mill Pond that is connected to Eel Pond now by a culvert. Usually we go to Menemsha on the Vineyard for this species. Was cool to find in Eel Pond. Maybe it was flushed from Mill Pond. I took a net and did some scrapes on the piling and floats but it could easily have drifted over. Wind was SW but it does tend to swirl around the pond a bit. Vaucheria, (its food plant) is found on the bottom.
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Manú Poison Frog (Ameerega macero)Observer
marilinbuDescription
Observado en el camino Lambarry.
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Genus CechenenaObserver
argenteaPlace
Cibodas Botanical Garden, Hutan Gunung Gede Pangrango, Desa, Cimacan, Kec. Cipanas, Kabupaten Cianjur, Jawa Barat 43253, Indonesia (Google, OSM)
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Mangrove Horseshoe Crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda)Observer
lynetteclennell
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Blackclaw Crestleg Crab (Lophopanopeus bellus)Observer
hakaiinstituteDescription
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-10137 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
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North Pacific Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae ssp. kuzira)Observer
alesbucek
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Common Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria parietina)Observer
melissa_hutchisonDescription
On moribund Olearia adenocarpa
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Versuriga anadyomeneObserver
eblekePlace
Gili Air, Gili Indah, Pemenang, North Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (Google, OSM)Description
The bell looks similar to V. anadyomene but the oral arms are off...
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Electric Fileclam (Ctenoides ales)Observer
eblekeDescription
I wish I could post the full video of this one.
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Hourglass Toad (Leptophryne borbonica)Observer
auzansukatonDescription
Indonesian Name : Kodok Jam Pasir
