A Concealer moth (Philobota group) at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Philobota philostaura | 16 Dec 2019 | ibaird | ||
| Philobota philostaura | 16 Dec 2019 | Marthijn |
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Size about 14 mm. Much less contrast in the wing pattern than the one from O'Connor.
A question for the moderators: should I enter repeat sightings, or only put in a sighting for a species at one location once?
3 comments
ibaird
wrote:
16 Dec 2019
As far as I know there are no firm guidelines on this, except self-imposed ones. Personally, I don't usually submit repeat observations of moth species for the same site (except if doing a survey) , but I do for significantly different new locations e.g, in a reserve or different habitat, greater than about 100m away from a site or in a different Naturemapr region. This means I am ignoring posting photos of what are for me, very common moths (e.g. Olbonoma triptycha, Scopula rubraria etc.) . I do seek to re-submit the same species at a site where a different sex is apparent or when its identifiably the same species but a different form - whether recognised or not. I'm assuming we want to derive maps of distribution of species, link them to habitat if possible, but not create too large a database of repeat observations which serve no real scientific purpose. Hope this helps, but its a worthwhile set of issues to raise. However, there can also be exceptions to such rules because, for example, we might want to identify when a species is active/flowering etc. at sites at different times of the year, so observations at the same pre-defined sites over time would be actively sought (e.g. as for the orchid survey).
Marthijn
wrote:
16 Dec 2019
Thanks, I was trying to follow a similar set of rules, but was not clear about how much interest there would be in collecting data about seasonal trends, i.e. at what time of year a species is present.
Although this is a repeat observation, I will not remove it to leave the discussion visible (and also because there are very few sightings of this species, which you recently suggested is actually common).
Although this is a repeat observation, I will not remove it to leave the discussion visible (and also because there are very few sightings of this species, which you recently suggested is actually common).
ibaird
wrote:
16 Dec 2019
Similar enough for me, but I may be wrong. No this species has not yet been commonly generally, but I think it will be now that its has been recognised. locally I was just referring to 2 other species that are very common at my home address and on CNM generally. iNaturalist automatically gives a month by month time series graphic plot updated for each new observation of a species for a region, but that is a feature we don.'t have on CNM.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.065841-35.376942
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 16 Dec 2019 09:20 AM Recorded on
- Marthijn Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Concealer moths (Oecophoridae) Marthijn Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Philobota philostaura Scientific name
- A Concealer moth (Philobota group) Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 753.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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