---

After a visit to Puerto Maldonado, Peru in July, I have a few unidentified moths i would like some help with (optimistic maybe, but worth a try?). Anyone recognize some of them?

#1:

---

#1: Some kind of Hawk moth?

---

#2: Sesiidae sp.?

---

#3 - A geometrid moth

---

#4: Another geometrid moth - emerald

---

To my untrained eye I would say that the top 2 are Arctiidae (or close families) and the bottom 2 are Geometridae ... but it's a very difficult part of the world to make such rash guesses! ;)

You could try to contact some lepidopterists in the neotropics - they might recognise the shapes :) There are some good lepidopterists in French Guiana (Guyane) who might be able to help. If you google a bit you can come up with some sites like http://www.papill...Guyane.htm :)

---

2 bottom - Geometridae

Second photo shows a Syntomidae moth.

---

1 Xanthoarctia pseudameoides (Rotschild, 1909) (Arctiidae, Arctiinae). Described from Peru.
2 Looks very much like Saurita vindonissa (Druce, 1883) (Arctiidae, Ctenuchinae); this species is probably recorded only from Ecuador, though. Yet it's certainly a Saurita sp.
3 Eois nr. binaria (Geometridae, Larentiinae).
4 Lissochlora? Nemoria? (Geometridae, Geometrinae).