Loepa megacore of SK Kuala Jengal

Yesterday afternoon, a student of mine told me that he saw a big butterfly attaching itself to a palm tree beside the school's hall. I then went to the site and told the boy that the creature is actually a moth.

The moth that being found yesterday.

I think this is a Loepa megacore moth, which the taxonomy of the moth is as follow:

Kingdom: Animalia - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Phylum: Arthropoda - Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
Class: Insecta - Insects
Order: Lepidoptera - Butterflies, Moths
Family: Bombycoidea
Genus: Loepa
Specific name: megacore Jordan 1911
Scientific name: Loepa megacore Jordan 1911

another taxonomy that I found in the internet for this moth is as follow:

Family: Saturniidae
Sub-family: Saturniinae
Name: Loepa megacore Jordan, 1911

and may be this is the complete one:

Kingdom: Animalia - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Phylum: Arthropoda - Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
Class: Insecta - Insects
Order: Lepidoptera - Butterflies, Moths
Superfamily: Bombycoidea Latreille, 1802
Family: Saturniidae Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Subfamily: Saturniinae Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Tribe: Saturniini Boisduval, [1837] 1834
Genus: Loepa Moore, 1859
Scientific name: Loepa megacore Jordan, 1911


Members of the genus Loepa:

There are approximately 25 species and subspecies in this genus: L. anthera · L. damartis · L. diversiocellata · L. dogninia · L. formosensis · L. formosibia · L. javanica · L. katinka · L. kuangtungensis · L. megacore · L. mindanaensis · L. minhassae · L. miranda · L. oberthuri · L. obscuromarginata · L. sakaei · L. septentrionalis · L. sikkimensis · L. sikkma · L. sivalensis · L. sivalica · L. taipeishanis · L. vandenberghi · L. wlingana · L. yunnana


19 May 2008, 9.09 am