A Geometrid moth at O'Connor, ACT
Identification history
| Aporoctena undescribed species | 25 Oct 2017 | GlennCocking | ||
| Aporoctena undescribed species | 23 Oct 2017 | ibaird |
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Attracted to MV light at night.
1 comment
ibaird
wrote:
24 Oct 2017
There are two Aporoctena spp. identified to species level on both the Atlas of Living Australia and Lepidopera Butterfly House websites, A. sceriodes and A. aprepes, neither of which match this specimen. However, Moths of Victoria. Vol 5 recognises Aporoctena sp.(1) the image for the female of which quite closely matches this specimen. Moths of Victoria also describes A. sp(1) as having a distribution which includes the ACT. Therefore I have suggested this species is Aporoctena sp.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.113395-35.259570
- Altitude 610.0m
- Places O'Connor, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Oct 2017 10:48 PM Recorded on
- ibaird Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) ibaird Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Female Gender
Species information
- Aporoctena undescribed species Scientific name
- A Geometrid moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 651.59m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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