The large striped brown adult hawk moths of southern Africa
Here is some illustrated ID help for the large striped brown adult hawk moths. This is not necessarily an exhaustive selection, and I'm sure more species will come to light in future.
The WHITE STRIPED browns
These moths have white (or pinkish) stripes running vertically down the wing.
Photo credits: Hyles livornica @henrydelange | Rhodafra opheltes @ricky_taylor | Basiotha charis @janet_taylor | Basiotha schenki @steveball
The BROWN STRIPED browns
Most of the Hippotions and a couple of Theretras. Check abdomen markings (or lack thereof) and the shape, width and colour of the median band when ID'ing your moths. There is quite a lot of variation within a species, and older, worn moths can look very different to freshly emerged adults.
Photo credits: Hippotion balsaminae @botswanabugs | Hippotion eson @moira_fitzpatrick | Hippotion celerio @suncana | Theretra monteironis @riana60 | Hippotion osiris @ajdyason | Hippotion aporodes (probably) @jeanpaulboerekamps | Theretra cajus @colin25
This was knocked up pretty quickly, so please let me know of any errors or omissions ;-)
Thank you very much, as always, to the photographers for their wonderful images!
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Thank you so much for this @karoopixie
Perhaps we need to start taking pics of backwing and the undersides as well, if that is possible.
Hindwings and undersides are difficult to photograph if they're not showing them. I think there's enough info on the top sides to ID with some confidence, so it's all good :-)
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Cool!
Brilliant, thank you!
Pretty cool! Thanks! How do I find posts like this on iNat?
Andrew, it's not easy because journal posts are not really searchable.
If one joins a project (like this Sphingidae one), then one should get notifications of new journal posts on your dashboard. One doesn't get notifications at the top of iNat like with other things, but I sometimes get them on emails (you have to set this up under your profile).
I will try to remember to @ mention you on future posts I do. I don't know how you would find other people's posts though...
The illustrated ID help posts for MOTHS that I've done so far are here:
My journal - https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/karoopixie (please ignore the Pseudoclanis one - it needs work)
Sphingidae of southern Africa - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sphingidae-hawkmoths-of-southern-africa (see Journal)
Bunaeini of Africa - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bunaeini-emperor-moths-of-africa (see Journal)
Pillar Parade - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pillar-parade-s-afr (see Journal)
Arctiinae of southern Africa - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/arctiinae-of-southern-africa (see Journal)
Other stuff:
Malvaceae of sA - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10860094
Haemodoraceae of sA - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10967856
Brown francolins of sA - https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/karoopixie/29451-the-brown-southern-african-francolins-some-id-help
Much appreciated!
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