Hippotion celerio
Vine Hawk Moth at Higgins, ACT
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| Hippotion celerio | ibaird | 1 Mar 2024 | |
| Hippotion celerio | MichaelWenke | 1 Mar 2024 |
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11 comments
5 Mar 2024
Hi Trevor, somehow your sighting had GPS location in the Atlantic, somewhere off Nigeria and was messing up the "Map Search". I have moved it to Parliament House. Can you fix it to the correct location? CC @AaronClausen @JaneR
5 Mar 2024
Thanks @michaelb - @trevor can I please get your help to narrow down this very occasional / ad hoc bug. Looks like this sighting was uploaded via the website, did you manually specify the location by clicking on the map or entering in coordinates, or did the system pick up a location from your photo? I can't see any GPS location information in the original image.
5 Mar 2024
@michaelb @AaronClausen I have fixed location now. This moth was in my back yard and I manually entered the location. It's possible I inadvertantly clicked on the Atlantic Ocean, but not sure how that would have happened.
5 Mar 2024
Thanks @Trevor - this is great for me to know. So you basically zoomed on the map to find and then click on your backyard location? And all seemed to work and be accepted by the system?
5 Mar 2024
I haven't had the problem for a long time, but the Atlantic location is the intersection of the Greenwich meridian with the Equator: Longitude 0, Latitude 0.
6 Mar 2024
@AaronClausen - that's correct. I zoomed in and clicked to edit the location. It seemed to work fine.
6 Mar 2024
Yay! I've managed to reproduce the issue. Will fix shortly.. Many thanks @trevor @michaelb @Mike
6 Mar 2024
Ok issue has been resolved, I challenge anyone to try to report or edit a sighting with 0, 0 coordinates from here!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.030981-35.228882
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 1 Mar 2024 08:16 AM Recorded on
- MichaelWenke Recorded by
- 50mm or larger Animal size
Collections
- MichaelWenke Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hippotion celerio Hawk moths (Sphingidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Hippotion celerio Scientific name
- Vine Hawk Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1658.9m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Elpenor phoenix
Record quality
Quality score
3 / 7
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- Additional attributes
- More than one media file
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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