Greetings to all!
I am humbly asking for some help, in regards to the checking of my moth samples. Though it is of great inconvenience to you all, I will respect your decision nevertheless. However, if you so do choose to give me your insight on my identification. Then, you are all the more willing and I cannot thank you enough for that. Once more, thank you all for your time and consideration!
(P.S. my id table is found down below).
Sincerely,
Mark Quimno
Hi Mark.
I am confident taxonomy and species identification is something more serious than looking at the poor quality images, especially, if it goes about such a megadiverse country like the Philippines.
May I suggest investing more time and effort, mounting and labelling your samples, sorting them by families and afterwards asking a specialist on each taxonomic group (if available) for identification? For my understanding and experience this will not only be more convenient for the specialist (rather than photographs), but also will improve the results (since on-side 2D photographs not always provide sufficient information about main feature of a species).
Hope this helps a little.
Mark Davin Castillo Quimno, You can contact Peter Smetacek: [email protected] for moths and butterfly identification
But, you must use the best quality images. The attached file contains a very poor resolution, which hinders the identification.
Thank you all so much for your replies and yes, I will look into my images and try to fix its quality.
Kariyanna B. and Dmitry Telnov thank you so much for your time and effort, for it is much appreciated!
(P.S.) I will also try to contact Mr. Peter Smetacek.
I agree with earlier comments on the poor quality of photos. Many tropical moth species are difficult if not impossible to identify beyond family or genus by external appearance alone. My impression that No 3 is a Geometridae, No. 5 is not Nymphalidae, No 10 is Erebidae, and No 12 I doubt is the species aa labelled. I suspect that the taxonomy of Philippines Lepidoptera is poorly understood in general and that detailed taxonomic coverage is known only for particular groups or species.
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