Cultivated area with small forest edges near Tap Lan NP, 700m, Nakhon Ratchasima province
Cultivated area with small forest edges near Tap Lan NP, 700m, Nakhon Ratchasima province

Short trip to Wang Nam Khieo near Tap Lan National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. There was a cultivated area with some secondary forest edges. Very interesting was a Arctiidae species from Venezuela (South Amerika), Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata. These species was introduced to Sabah (Borneo) and Sri Lanka in 1973/74 for control of the Neotropical weed Chromolaena odorata (Compositae) and must be spreading to Malaysia and Thailand. About 3-4 years ago, I am know these species only from the southern part of Thailand and now I am discover these species also in the northeastern part of Thailand, about 1500 km from my last record in South Thailand.

Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata (Rego Barros 1956)
Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata (Rego Barros 1956)
Archaeoattacus edwardsii (White 1859)
Archaeoattacus edwardsii (White 1859)
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