Grammodes oculicola

1 Small-eyed Box-Owlet at Ainslie, ACT

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Identification history

Grammodes oculicola	2 Mar 2020	donhe
Unidentified	2 Mar 2020	ibaird
Grammodes oculicola	2 Mar 2020	jb2602
Grammodes oculicola	29 Feb 2020	jb2602

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jb2602 wrote:

2 Mar 2020

http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/oculicola.html

jb2602 wrote:

2 Mar 2020

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/501539-Grammodes-oculicola

jb2602 wrote:

2 Mar 2020

https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:88f8a713-fb41-49d7-9610-aff9cb8da3ad#gallery

jb2602 wrote:

2 Mar 2020

Should have been G. oculicola not G. oculata

ibaird wrote:

3 Mar 2020

I suggested G. oculata because on the forewing near the trailing edge I didn't think there was a 'pale tapering sub-marginal band" as there is for G. oculicola, see http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/oculata.html However, I stand to be corrected on that....

donhe wrote:

3 Mar 2020

In the drawing by Snellen (the author of of Grammodes oculata) of this species, there is no pale submarginal arc, see fig 6 in
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40933#page/301/mode/1up
Meanwhile Walker, author of Grammodes oculicola, says
"a testaceous streak along the exterior border", see
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/121628#page/482/mode/1up.
This specimen, 4251430, has a testaceous streak along the exterior border,
so I think it is Grammodes oculicola.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.152021 -35.259224
Places Ainslie, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
28 Feb 2020 08:02 PM Recorded on
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Insects Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera)

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12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Grammodes oculicola Scientific name
Small-eyed Box-Owlet Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 735.6m Recorded at altitude
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