Another first for I-Naturalist from West Papua

Appears there hasn't been a lot of moth trapping in the Arfaks, West Papua by I-Naturalist uses with news today from Shelley B and Rob de Vos from the Papua Insects Foundation HERE that we had our 7th first for I-Nat on our 2022 trip. Previous updates on this HERE and the lastest addition is Sinapex nigrilineata  HERE and HERE. It's also possible we had a completely undescribed species HERE. Considering there are nearly 300 million records of 555,000 species on I-Nat adding a few new species to the database is pretty nice although admittedly I just did the donkey work of collecting the specimens and the id is being done by the PIF. 

All our West Papua Observations HERE and the research grades ones HERE. As this is supposed to be a birding blog here's all our bird records too HERE (as usual click all details in the report to see the photos). 

There's still another 300 photo specimens to go through!, so more likely we've added a few more species too and there's always the possibility that we caught something really exciting. Will see. 

Moth trapping in West Papua