Hi All.

My name is Mark, and i recently joined this forum in the hopes that you can help me with some ID's, mainly of moths at this point. I am currently up in Uganda (S 000 25'1.58" E 029 46'36.91"), in the Queen Elizabeth National Park on the shores of Lake Edward. I am providing medical support for an Oil exploration drill team. Luckily I am not that busy and I am getting the opportunity to find a lot of Insects, birds and other things. Unfortunately I do not have any Lepidoptera guides withme and the only ones i have at home are on South African Lepidoptera (there are a few up here that we have down south). I am going to be posting a lot of pictures here, a couple of which are not too clear, but if you can ID them for me where possible that would be great. My knowledge of Lepidoptera is pretty much limited to the difference between butterflies and moths and one or two of the common names, and at a distant point in my past I used to mount butterflies as well, but now I prefer to catch them on film and mount them in a different kind of frame
A little bit about this area; I am roughly as the crow flies 46km south of the Equator. The area is pretty densely vegetated, from the papyrus swamps along the lake through savannah towards thick forest more inland. The temps i have been recording in the month since I got here have an Average high of 32.2C and an average low of 17.4C, with respective maximum and minimum of 35.5C and 14.2C respectively. We have not had any significant rain in the immediate area for about 5 weeks; although it has rained heavily within 10km of us. Early morning humidity is roughly 75%, dropping to an afternoon low of around 48%. We are 918m above sea level.

All the moths pictured here have been photographed in the last week, with almost all of them in the last two days at a single location (GPS co-ord above). To make it a little bit easier (and on the downloads) I will post them in groups of similar moths. I do apologize before hand for the number of pictures, and I have tried not to make duplicates unless there were significant variations or something significant to show (perhaps in aiding the identification). Your comments will be much appreciated.


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For some reason when i try and add multiple files it just loads the same picture a number of times. When i have worked out the correct way to do it, I will post more pics. Thanks for your patience.
M
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2.2 Hippotion balsaminae - Balsam Striped Hawk

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2.4 Hippotion osiris - Large Striped Hawk

2.5

2.6 Coelonia fulvinotata - Fulvous Hawk

2.7

2.8 Nephele accentifera
2.9 Xanthopan morgani

2.10 Basiothea medea - Small Verdant Hawk

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2.12 Daphnis nerii - Oleander Hawk

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2.14

2.15 Acheronita atropos - Death's Head Hawkmoth


Ok thats the first lot, more to follow... Thanks Justin.

Mark,

Welcome to the forum. To post additional photos edit the post and insert the new photo. Sorry about that, it is a item that needs attention.

Cheers,
Justin

These are mostly smaller moths except for the first one, which i assume is some kind of Atlas Moth.
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This one secreted some kind of noxious fluid from its thorax when i touched it
3.4 Amerila Vitrea saalmulleri


3.5

3.6 Meganaclia perpusilla

3.7 Lithosia natara

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3.16

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4.8 Azygophleps inclusa - Inclusive goat moth

5.1 Asota speciosa

5.2 Argina leonina though BushSnake said A. amanda I need to confirm which one it is...

5.3 Utethisa pulchella - crimson speckled footman

5.4 Amphicallia bellatrix - beautiful tiger

5.5 Terastia meticulosalis - Porphyry

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5.7