2018 roundup

What an amazing year.
Over 16,000 observations of exactly 1,250 species posted.
A really big THANK YOU to you all for contributing to the understanding of what moth species there are here in Hong Kong and how they fit in to HK's ecological framework.
Notable events included the City Nature Challenge in April (over 2,000 moths observations in 4 days!) and National Moth Week in late July.

as of 22:55, 31st Dec 2018, this is how the Hong Kong Moth Recording Project on iNaturalist's 2018 data has panned out.....

16,139 observations
1,250 species (research grade observations)
245 identifiers
350 observers

top observed spp:
1 - Obeidia tigrata (Geometridae); 139 observations
2 - Orvasca subnotata (Erebidae, Lymantriinae); 136 observations
3 - genus Artaxa (Erebidae, Lymantriinae); 128 observations
4 - Lyssa zampa (Uraniidae); 126 observations
5 - Orgyia postica (Erebidae, Lymantriinae); 110 observations

Star species - Plecoptera quaesita (new to HK), Pilipectus prunifera (2nd to 4th HK records), Dudgeonidae (new family to HK; one to put up on iNat in due course), Sphingonaepiopsis pumilio (first HK observation in 20 years); Fustis sterlingi (three new sites for this HK endemic); Spodoptera pectinicornis (1st likely breeding population in HK) . . . .

so the project has now some 36,292 observations of 1,630 species (research grade observations, so not including taxa only identified to genus or higher), by 642 observers, with 443 identifiers.

more to follow . . .

Posted on December 31, 2018 06:26 AM by hkmoths