Geometer moths (Geometridae)
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ibaird
wrote:
36 min ago
See notes here copied fron Sighting 4517837
For notes identifying features separating Chloroclystis filata, and Chloroclystis pallidiplaga/Pasiiphodes testulata see pp. 196-7 of 'Moths in the ACT' (Cocking et al (2022). ie.: "C. filata 'is very common and can be recognised by the dark patch inside the apex of the forewing, and in some specimens there is also a white patch extending inwards from near the inner margin (see arrows on photos p. 196). Chloroclystis pallidiplaga (or Pasidiphilodes [Chloroclystis] testulata, a very similar species) usually has two distinctive white patches on the forewing in different positions from the white patch that can occur on C. filata." (These different white patch positions are illustrated on pp. 196 and 197 for the two different species).
For notes identifying features separating Chloroclystis filata, and Chloroclystis pallidiplaga/Pasiiphodes testulata see pp. 196-7 of 'Moths in the ACT' (Cocking et al (2022). ie.: "C. filata 'is very common and can be recognised by the dark patch inside the apex of the forewing, and in some specimens there is also a white patch extending inwards from near the inner margin (see arrows on photos p. 196). Chloroclystis pallidiplaga (or Pasidiphilodes [Chloroclystis] testulata, a very similar species) usually has two distinctive white patches on the forewing in different positions from the white patch that can occur on C. filata." (These different white patch positions are illustrated on pp. 196 and 197 for the two different species).
Chloroclystis pallidiplaga
ibaird
wrote:
1 hr ago
Better still, see the identification notes reproduced at Sighting No. 4517837 cited from 'Moths in the ACT' (Cocling et al 2022), pp.196-7.
Chloroclystis filata
WendyEM
wrote:
4 hrs ago
Craspedosis leucosticta
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=11083
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=1023183
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/c594aafc-8c94-4d04-b2d9-74effa982a7d#names
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=11083
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?taxon_id=1023183
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/c594aafc-8c94-4d04-b2d9-74effa982a7d#names
Unverified Geometer moth (Geometridae)
ibaird
wrote:
9 hrs ago
On this basis I suggest this sighting is C. filata not P. testulata.
Chloroclystis filata
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