Olbonoma triptycha

Chezela Group at Kambah, ACT

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Identification history

Olbonoma triptycha	27 Nov 2019	GlennCocking
Oecophoridae (family)	26 Nov 2019	donhe
Olbonoma triptycha	26 Nov 2019	Marthijn

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Calling it Olbonoma Triptycha even though it does not have the dark stripe in the middle of the wing. Or maybe Isomoralla pyrrhoptera?

4 comments

donhe wrote:

27 Nov 2019

The pale submarginal mark looks the wrong shape for Isomoralla pyrrhoptera.

Marthijn wrote:

27 Nov 2019

When I compare this to my previous Olbonoma Triptycha sighting (

Olbonoma triptycha (Concealer moth) on 22 Nov 2019 ) it looks really similar except for the dark patch in the wing and fewer light sections in the legs.

donhe wrote:

27 Nov 2019

Common placed Olbonoma and Isomoralla in totally separate groups based on microscopic examination of the genitalia. Trying to decide on specific names based purely on superficial wing patterns is basically flawed, especially bearing in mind that about half the Oecophorinae illustrated in the BOLD pages are unnamed. I think the best we can do when we get contradictory indications like we have here is to identify the specimens as Oecophorinae sp.

GlennCocking wrote:

27 Nov 2019

I think Marthijn got it right at the start. O. triptycha sometimes comes without the central band (see 3401787), and the image matches O. triptycha well.

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