News & Updates

The content for this website has been updated. Taxonomic information has been added for nearly all of the 1,137 genera, as well as all tribes and most subfamilies.

To view Holloway’s original taxonomic notes, click the “view details” beside the heading on each genera/tribe/subfamily page.

This content update has also corrected various formatting issues across the site and added the missing tribe Careini, as well as Holloway’s notes on the placement of Oriental moths species within the genus Bleptina.

Currently, no information from The Moths of Borneo: Part Two or images from The Moths of Borneo: Part 7 are available on the website. We hope to rectify this in the near future.

Thank you to all users who got in touch regarding formatting issues or missing content. If you notice a mistake or an omission, please email info@mothsofborneo.com to help us address it.

The fifth edition of Corbet and Pendlebury’s classic The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula is now available to order.

The text has been updated with new information on distributions, life histories and larval food plants. The taxonomy of each species has been reviewed, and the text and relevant keys have been revised with newly published information. The text runs to 506 pages and includes an extensive bibliography and full indices. Additionally, the layout has been modernized for better readability and aesthetics while the figures have been redrawn for clarity.

It includes a completely new set of 132 colour plates illustrating every species reliably recorded from Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, showing the upperside and underside of both males and females of most species. The immature stages of selected species, representing each butterfly subfamily, are illustrated in 6 colour plates. There are also 25 pages of genitalia drawings.

The basic cost is US$60 (RM260) per volume, plus postage. Please contact info@mothsofborneo.com.my to place an order.

The original Moths of Borneo website launched in 2003 and has served as an indispensible archive of J.D. Holloway’s work for more than two decades. Now, several key enhancements have been made to improve the usability on smartphones and other modern devices. These include a nightmode and an integrated search tool for browsing the full catalogue.

The timing of this launch corresponds with the Holloway Symposium at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. This event commemorates J.D. Holloway and celebrates his contributions with talks from international speakers and reminiscences from close colleagues.

The redesign of this website was made possible by Dato’ Henry Barlow, with vital contributions from Sofwan Badruddin.

For more information, please email info@mothsofborneo.com.