An Erebid moth at Ainslie, ACT
Identification history
| Calathusa ischnodes | 21 Dec 2019 | donhe | ||
| Calathusa ischnodes | 21 Dec 2019 | GlennCocking | ||
| Chlenias (genus) | 20 Dec 2019 | jb2602 |
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6 comments
ibaird
wrote:
21 Dec 2019
There area few images of a species Chlenias stenosticha for which some specimens show black blotches like those of this specimen but they appear to be in different places on the forewing. See
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=197638
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http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_TaxonPage?taxid=197638
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GlennCocking
wrote:
21 Dec 2019
This is a Calathusa species. (The palpi indicate Noctuidae or Erebidae.) There are many species, including undescribed ones, and some are quite variable. I'm not sure if it will be possible to isolate the species of this one.
jb2602
wrote:
21 Dec 2019
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/355227-Calathusa-hypotherma/browse_photos has similar dots
GlennCocking
wrote:
21 Dec 2019
I meant to add that similar dots occur within the variation of more than one of the species. C. thermochroa is certainly a common prospect, but it has a transverse rather than longitudinal pattern, and is usually variable brown rather than grey moth (although there are grey exceptions. I think C. thermosticha, a widespread inland moth, is the most likely prospect..
GlennCocking
wrote:
8 Jan 2020
4247141 and 4245724 seem to be the same species. They match a few specimens from the NSW tablelands and further west that might be a variation on Calathusa thermosticha, or a similar unnamed species.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.151981-35.259236
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Dec 2019 09:56 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Calathusa ischnodes Scientific name
- An Erebid moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
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