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27th August 2007 - had word from Mark Sterling that some more species are now identified following a session at The Natural History Museum, London, with Tony Galsworthy.
Species updated are:
- Calletaera subexpressa (Walker, 1861) (new to Hong Kong; leg. M.J.Sterling - data not yet available) [Geometridae, Ennominae]
- Chlorissa arcana Yazaki, 1993 (new to Hong Kong; leg. M.J.Sterling - data not yet available) [Geometridae, Geometrinae]
- Herochroma viridaria (Moore, 1867) (new to Hong Kong; 20th May 2006, Sha Lo Tung) [Geometridae, Geometrinae]; also subsequently recorded at Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden.
- Percnia fumidaria Leech, 1887 (species confirmed; previously listed as Antipercnia cordiforma of Kendrick (2002) and Percnia sp. nr. luridaria of Kendrick (2004)) [Geometridae, Ennominae]
- Ectoblemma rosella Sugi, 1982 (species confirmed; previously listed as Acontiinae genus & sp. A sensu Kendrick (2002) [Noctuidae, Acontiinae]
- Oruza mira (Butler, 1879) (species confirmed; previously listed as Oruza sp. nr. crocodeta sensu Kendrick (2002) [Noctuidae, Eustrotiinae]
- Daona bilinealis (Leech, 1900) (species confirmed; previously listed as Acontiinae genus & sp. C sensu Kendrick (2002) [Noctuidae, placement uncertain, pending the publication of Moths of Borneo part 17 (Noctuidae, Heminiinae & Hypeninae)]
After the big heat of a dry July, August has been something of a contrast - wet, wet, soaking wet all month. Today (24th) is the first day in weeks I've seen blue sky. Done one night's field work, timed to coincide the the UK's National Moth Night (11th Aug 2007), which was held in Ho Chung Valley and attended by contributors to HKWildlife.net forum. It was raining intermittently, having had virtually continuous rain for three days up to the afternoon of the event due to a typhoon! Unsurprisingly, not much activity - only around 30 species recorded from what could be a very promising site.
It's been too hot in June & July - minimum night temperatures regularly around 30°C. Looking forward to cooler nights in August!
Micromoth specialist Prof. LI Hou Hun, of Nankai University, Tianjin, China, visited Hong Kong for two weeks of intensive field work in April 2007. Work is now in progress to write up new species of Gelechioidea and Pyraloidea that are awaiting description.

Website Updates

2007 - August 24th

New banner on the front page (index page) for Hong Kong Moths (Flickr) - a new photo group for HK moths, which I hope to incorporate into the taxonomy pages of this website, allowing much more expansion of this website's photographic guide concept.

updated the HK moth recorders page with a few minor spellings and changes (correcting bowringi to bowringii and adding Acentropinae as the senior synonym for Nymphulinae)

2007 - July 23rd

New weather banner for Lam Tsuen Valley, rather than a general Hong Kong banner, to reflect the location of HKMoths!

2006 - June 11th

Photographs of 8 Noctuidae species added (Athetis bispurca, Bastilla joviana, Enispa elataria, Goniophila hamsponi, Hypena laceratalis, Lophomilia takao, Spodoptera litura and Sugitania sp. nr. lepida.

Amended anticipated publication date of the forthcoming Illustrated Guide to the Moths of Hong Kong [IGMHK] to December 2006.

Restarted the "What's New" page, after a five year gap.

2006 - June 8th to 11th

Some minor corrections to the South East Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium website - adding student registration fees, updating payment methods, adding in information on key speakers.