Pectinivalva commoni group undescribed species

Melba, ACT

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Identification history

	Pectinivalva commoni group undescribed species	13 Feb 2021	GlennCocking
	Unidentified	1 Feb 2021	kasiaaus

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11 comments

donhe wrote:

1 Feb 2021

Opostegidae sp. ?

ibaird wrote:

1 Feb 2021

Similar to Sightin No. 4355430 (Undetermined Gelechiodea).

GlennCocking wrote:

11 Feb 2021

..... and some others. Who can make out the palpi?

kasiaaus wrote:

11 Feb 2021

I tried to enlarge the photo but it does not show much. Please note that the white things (at least the one on the left) are threads from the sheet it is sitting on.

donhe wrote:

12 Feb 2021

hairy pair of something under the head.

GlennCocking wrote:

10 Mar 2021

"Unidentified moths group 2" has been identified. See the notes on the species page. The second photo on this record shows the eyecap reasonably clearly.

ibaird wrote:

10 Mar 2021

I see there are no sightings of this species on the ALA or iNaturalist and only one dissimilar specimen of this distinctive but tiny moth on Bold Systems 4. Zborowski and Edwards (2007) give one page to the Nepticulidae family saying there are about 20 named Australian species with hundreds expected.

kasiaaus wrote:

10 Mar 2021

Thanks for all the work on this everyone :-)

GlennCocking wrote:

10 Mar 2021

Many of the expected species are on Black Mountain (and elsewhere locally you would think). The principal researcher on Nepticulidae, Robert Hoare, did a lot of work there.

donhe wrote:

10 Mar 2021

Scoble say this species has "Forewing dark, glossy, purplish brown with purple
reflections", and the lone specimen in BOLD has uniformly dark brown forewings.
The white patches on these CNM specimens seem to be at variance with these?

GlennCocking wrote:

11 Mar 2021

The species notes say "This represents a complex of many species", and many of the expected "hundreds" of new species that Ian's comment refers to will come from this complex. I've changed the title and done a bit of editing improvement. Katarina's other nepticulid might come from the same complex, i haven't been able to work that out yet.

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