Grammodes oculicola

1 Small-eyed Box-Owlet at Ainslie, ACT

Grammodes oculicola at Ainslie, ACT - 28 Feb 2020
Grammodes oculicola at Ainslie, ACT - 28 Feb 2020
Grammodes oculicola at Ainslie, ACT - 28 Feb 2020
Grammodes oculicola at Ainslie, ACT - 28 Feb 2020
Grammodes oculicola at Ainslie, ACT - 28 Feb 2020
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Grammodes oculicola 2 Mar 2020 donhe
Unidentified 2 Mar 2020 ibaird
Grammodes oculicola 2 Mar 2020 jb2602
Grammodes oculicola 29 Feb 2020 jb2602

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jb2602 wrote:
   2 Mar 2020
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/oculicola.html
jb2602 wrote:
   2 Mar 2020
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/501539-Grammodes-oculicola
jb2602 wrote:
   2 Mar 2020
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:88f8a713-fb41-49d7-9610-aff9cb8da3ad#gallery
jb2602 wrote:
   2 Mar 2020
Should have been G. oculicola not G. oculata
ibaird wrote:
   3 Mar 2020
I suggested G. oculata because on the forewing near the trailing edge I didn't think there was a 'pale tapering sub-marginal band" as there is for G. oculicola, see http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/oculata.html However, I stand to be corrected on that....
donhe wrote:
   3 Mar 2020
In the drawing by Snellen (the author of of Grammodes oculata) of this species, there is no pale submarginal arc, see fig 6 in
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40933#page/301/mode/1up
Meanwhile Walker, author of Grammodes oculicola, says
"a testaceous streak along the exterior border", see
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/121628#page/482/mode/1up.
This specimen, 4251430, has a testaceous streak along the exterior border,
so I think it is Grammodes oculicola.

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