Saturday, February 8, 2020

Cambodia Other Insects

 Large Carpenter bee
 Blue Mud-Dauber Wasp
 Unknown flatbacked millipede
 Unknown flea beetle
 Rufous-Legged Grasshopper
 Ommatiini robber fly
 Chlorosmini bug
 Leaf rake-like antennae beetle
 Lychee shield bug
 Orbweaver
Assassin bug - Polididus armatissimus

Cambodian Butterflies and Moths

 Great Eggfly
 Common Tiger
 Common Mormon Swallowtail
 Green Dragontail Butterfly. These fluttered around so beautifully on the mountaintop in Kep.
Metallic Caerulean
 Ring Butterfly
 Lemon Pansy
 Lime Swallowtail

 Chestnut Bob
 Wasp moth Caeneressa Fouqueti
 Eressa Confini
 Lemon Migrant

 Leopard Lacewing
 Knight
 Plain blue tiger
 Common Earl
 White-Edged Blue Baron
 Common Sailor
 Common birdwing
Painted Jezebel

Cambodian herps (mostly reptiles)




 Tokay Geckos! They are amazing and make loud noises at night that sound exactly like the word "gecko" to western ears.

Changeable lizards, also called Oriental Garden Lizards. 
 Asian House Gecko and Flat-Tailed House Gecko
 White-Lipped Pitviper, covered with sand from the road. Likely deceased or dying, although I didn't venture close to it to inspect.
 A couple more changeable lizards.

 Brown tree frog and a Whipping frog

 Another Tokay Gecko! By far my favorite.

Cambodian Dragonflies and Damselflies

 Ditch Jewel
 Yellow-Striped Flutterer
 Common Picture-Wing
 Dingy Dusk-Darter
 Chalky percher
Asian Blood-Tail.
Russet Percher
Ceriagrion Damselfly
 Swampwatcher
 Chalky Percher
 Scarlet Skimmer
 Wandering Midget
Red Glider