Beautiful blue species, a strange skink, and a hidden Hymenoptera

We've identified around 180 species in La Mesa Eco Park, Quezon City, Luzon Island, Philippines!

Here's a new fave, the Blue tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus).

_{Photo by Vijay Vanaparthy}

Here's a local version of the blue butterfly emoji (🦋), the Philippine Wanderer (Pareronia boebera).

NEED ID: bird, bug, moth

• We also need an ID for these three lowland white-eye (Zosterops meyeni): 158952414, 158952422, and 158952422.

• What's this Hymenoptera?
  
  _{Photo by micaelgabrielitliong}

• And these moths that are probably family Erebidae? 161773222, 161011339, 161772991, and 158453569.

Much work remains, we have yet to identify observations in La Mesa Ecopark from May-Aug 2023. This is all to help the 30x30 global movement, aiming to protect at least 30% of the planet’s lands and water ecosystems by 2030. :) https://30x30sea.org

To end this post, we also learned a bit more about Philippine biogeography, particularly about our Pleistocene Aggregate Island Complexes (PAIC) and how Luzon, Negros-Panay, and Mindanao species differentiate with each other. Here's a map by Khalighifar et al.

Further reading
[1] Khalighifar, Ali & Brown, Rafe & Vallejos, Johana & Peterson, Andrew. (2021). Deep learning improves acoustic biodiversity monitoring and new candidate forest frog species identification (genus Platymantis) in the Philippines. Biodiversity and Conservation. 30. 10.1007/s10531-020-02107-1.
[2] Philippines reiterates commitment to protect 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030. https://www.denr.gov.ph/index.php/news-events/press-releases/5694-denr-leads-ph-initiatives-to-meet-30x30-global-climate-change-pledge

Publicado el diciembre 28, 2023 04:36 TARDE por finding_remo