4 Orange Pasture-moth at Ainslie, ACT
Identification history
| Ciampa chordota | 19 Aug 2022 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Ciampa chordota | 18 Aug 2022 | donhe | ||
| Ciampa chordota | 17 Aug 2022 | jb2602 | ||
| Ardices glatignyi | 22 Mar 2021 | GlennCocking | ||
| Heliothinae (subfamily) | 20 Mar 2021 | jb2602 |
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19 comments
jb2602
wrote:
20 Mar 2021
Brown moth with white veins. Similar looking moths Heliocheilus cramboides and H. atrilinea are white with brown veins.
GlennCocking
wrote:
21 Mar 2021
This at first looked temptingly like one of the forms of Heliocheilus cramboides, but the wing pattern isn't quite right, the thorax pattern isn't close, and the antenna and palpi are quite different cf H. cramboides. An interesting moth!
GlennCocking
wrote:
22 Mar 2021
Yes, It may be a variant of Spilosoma glatignyi - antennae and palpi seem right, and you can see some longitudinally patterned specimens on iNAT.
jb2602
wrote:
22 Mar 2021
See https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/46810434 and MOV CD glatignyi3.pdf
GlennCocking
wrote:
22 Mar 2021
I've now seen two S.glatignyi specimens close to this, one from Tas and one WA
ibaird
wrote:
22 Mar 2021
Mmm. I remain somewhat unconvinced. The thorax markings look quite different to the examples on Moths of Victoria. And no red Markings are visible at all here. I cannot see the antennae. The moth looks more elongate than I would expect for S. glatignyi.
donhe
wrote:
22 Mar 2021
The veins look right for Spilosoma. The dorsal black stripe on the thorax is seen in S. glatignyi. Identification is difficult without an underside view.
jb2602
wrote:
22 Mar 2021
Sorry no ventral shot Don, I thought at the time that this one was going to be so easy!
ibaird
wrote:
23 Mar 2021
OK, I see the antennae now. Probably a tiger moth but I'm not sure its S. glatignyi.
ibaird
wrote:
23 Mar 2021
OK, I see the antennae now. Probably a tiger moth but I'm not sure its S. glatignyi.
jb2602
wrote:
17 Aug 2022
See https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=361853
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
19 Aug 2022
Hi Ian. I've recreated the species in Geometridae & deleted the species from Uncategorised.
GlennCocking
wrote:
19 Aug 2022
ANIC has a bunch of Ciampa chordata specimens from Black Mountain in the 1950s and 60s (three of them on BOLD) but few from anywhere since then. One ALA record, from Vic. A very interesting record. The old set specimens, and this photo, aren't much orange.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.152083-35.259212
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 18 Mar 2021 11:49 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Ciampa chordota
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Ciampa chordota Scientific name
- Orange Pasture-moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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