End Year Holidays

ASCELES SP "Real"

Species similar to Asceles scabra from QNP, found it there again, deep in Mount-Palakong, Real, East Luzon 6 months ago in the company of Joachim bresseel during that "famous" collecting night :))

MITHRENES SP Ilanin

Yet another Mithrenes species I actually found as early as August 2008.....but found only a single pair and the hatchlings from that couple all died as they refused all foodplants I was proposing to them ! Then last August 2009 I went back to the exact same place as the previous year hoping to find that species again and this time I was luckier as I found several pairs on a single night, however that species is confined to a very small area on a trail about 400 meter long along a river in the Ilanin forest, West-Luzon and thats it, never found any anywhere else than that piece of trail !!! This time too I was able to ID the foodplant and was able to breed it. Ilanin Forest is a place very kind to me as it previously gave me also the First Phyllium species 9 years ago, today known as PSG278 and the very first male of Sungaya inexpectata 2 years ago, unknown at that time :))