Dialectica scalariella/aemula
Echium Leaf Miners at Melba, ACT
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| Dialectica scalariella/aemula | ibaird | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| Dialectica scalariella/aemula | kasiaaus | 18 Jan 2021 |
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5 comments
18 Jan 2021
Do you know how to distinguish this from Dialectica aemula?
Any Echium plantagineum in the vicinity?
Any Echium plantagineum in the vicinity?
18 Jan 2021
The moths are superficially similar. The native species D. scalariella was introduced to feed on Echium plantagineum as D. aemula does not feed on it. If there is no E. plantagineum locally, the moths are probably D. aemula.
Tosio and Marianne wrote an article on how to distinguish them:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01427.x
but I do not have access to it. Maybe until we have access to it, we should just refer these to 'Dialectica species'.
Tosio and Marianne wrote an article on how to distinguish them:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1997.tb01427.x
but I do not have access to it. Maybe until we have access to it, we should just refer these to 'Dialectica species'.
19 Jan 2021
I can assure you there is plenty of E. plantagineum in Canberra, but whether its plentiful in Melba I'm not sure. I would be surprised if it were not present there. Thanks for the reference. I have access to it online. Excellent photos but of set specimens, of course. I have sent you via email a PDF copy of the paper.
19 Jan 2021
There is no E. plantagineum near where I took the photo that I know of but that does not mean that it's not there somewhere out of my sight.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.050002-35.208558
- Altitude 604.3m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 5 Jan 2021 11:27 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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- kasiaaus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Dialectica scalariella/aemula Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Dialectica scalariella/aemula Scientific name
- Echium Leaf Miners Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 626m Recorded at altitude
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