Concealer moths (Oecophoridae)

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Concealer moths (Oecophoridae)

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Discussion

PJH123 wrote:

13 Apr 2025

Bad image but I don't think so

Barea (genus)

ibaird wrote:

13 Apr 2025

Barea anerasta?

Barea (genus)

WendyEM wrote:

13 Apr 2025

Thanks. I will have to be in a much clearer thinking state to venture into that. It is a fabulous resource and has resolved many problems.

Oecophoridae (family)

PJH123 wrote:

13 Apr 2025

@WendyEM Wendy, I know very little myself but have works out it’s made up of four acids, adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). These are the letters you see in the public data area on BOLD and look like ACAATCGTAACA---etc. A good sequence is made up of 658 of these letters. Sometimes it is only partial and have far fewer. I have made up a spread sheet which helps me compare one against the other but BOLD v5 has a Barcode ID where you can add a sequence and see what it matched.
Where it helps, the image of Endotricha approximalis, Record Details ANICC522-10 looked out of place and BOLD’s Endotricha approximalis page noted 5 specimens with barcodes in 3 Bins an indication that there could be more than one species or possibly partial DNA causing the problem. Copy the DNA sequence of Endotricha approximalis ANICC522-10 into the Barcode ID of BOLD v5 and you will see it is 100% match for 19 specimens of Endotricha mesenterialis, indicating it is misplaced in E. approximalis.

Oecophoridae (family)

WendyEM wrote:

13 Apr 2025

Thanks Ian and PJH123 I have not worked out how to read the DNA stuff. I presume the colour coding and different bin numbers means something to do with it. I have no idea of what genus this moth belongs to.

Oecophoridae (family)