Androdes tibiata
Horseshoe Noctuid at Ainslie, ACT
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| Androdes tibiata | GlennCocking | 6 Oct 2020 | |
| Androdes tibiata | MichaelBedingfield | 25 Sep 2020 | |
| Androdes hypochalchis | jb2602 | 11 Jan 2020 |
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2 comments
25 Sep 2020
The recdntly published Part 9 of Moths of Victoria (MoV) provides a guideline: 'Comparison of P. hypochalchis and P. tibiata' on the supporting disc to the Part at page 3/4 for P. hypochalchis. For P. hypochalchis this guideline says that species has a reniform mark which is a 'broad, dark bar, slightly cuved)' whereas the corresponding reniform mark for P. tibiata is a 'broad, dark 'horseshoé enclosing an orange patch'. Moreover, the underside of the wings are úniformly dark'. The second photo of this speciemen shows this clealry and the descriptions and the images on the supporting disc matches this speciimen closely. PS On this basis , I asked michaleb (thank you Michael) to suggest this change for me because I found the CNP system did not allow me to make this suggestion as a moderator directly as I normally would.
6 Oct 2020
Ian has covered how to distinguish the males of the two species, and this is a male. The two species are sexually dimorphic, and MoV also describes how to separate the females. The reniforms and the base colours are different. The undersides are similar in the two species, and quite different to both males.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.152030-35.259182
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 10 Jan 2020 09:51 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Proteuxoa tibiata Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Androdes tibiata Scientific name
- Horseshoe Noctuid Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 831.5m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Orthosia subnigra Proteuxoa tibiata
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