#alucitidae — Public Fediverse posts
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I've been going through unsorted accessions in the #Australian National #Insect #Collection (#ANIC) here in Canberra to find any plume #moths (#Pterophoridae) and many-plume moths (#Alucitidae) before doing more work to revise the fauna of these two families.
Today, I found this specimen collected by David Rentz in #Kuranda #Queensland in 2007 - it's not a known named Australian species but it looks a close match for Platyptilia microbscura recorded only from #Misool, an island to the west of #NewGuinea:
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I've been going through unsorted accessions in the #Australian National #Insect #Collection (#ANIC) here in Canberra to find any plume #moths (#Pterophoridae) and many-plume moths (#Alucitidae) before doing more work to revise the fauna of these two families.
Today, I found this specimen collected by David Rentz in #Kuranda #Queensland in 2007 - it's not a known named Australian species but it looks a close match for Platyptilia microbscura recorded only from #Misool, an island to the west of #NewGuinea:
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Today I found six observations in #iNaturalist that include what may well be the only photos ever taken of live many-plume #moths in the genus #Triscaedecia.
This is a rarely recorded genus for which I accidentally became co-author on a 2019 global revision: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332013222
There are six named species, four first described in the 2019 paper.
The new records include the second known individual of Triscaedecia svetlanae, extending its range from mainland #Malaysia to #Sabah in #Borneo, and the first (five) records of the genus from #Australia (far north #Queensland). The latter are probably Triscaedecia septemdactyla, a species previously recorded from New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands. I need to check the national #insect #collection here in #Canberra to see if there are any existing specimens in the unsorted material.
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Today I found six observations in #iNaturalist that include what may well be the only photos ever taken of live many-plume #moths in the genus #Triscaedecia.
This is a rarely recorded genus for which I accidentally became co-author on a 2019 global revision: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332013222
There are six named species, four first described in the 2019 paper.
The new records include the second known individual of Triscaedecia svetlanae, extending its range from mainland #Malaysia to #Sabah in #Borneo, and the first (five) records of the genus from #Australia (far north #Queensland). The latter are probably Triscaedecia septemdactyla, a species previously recorded from New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands. I need to check the national #insect #collection here in #Canberra to see if there are any existing specimens in the unsorted material.
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New paper today describes nine new many-plume #moth #species:
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1193.111544
With Alucita megaphimus also restored from synonymy, this increases the number of species described globally for the family from 259 to 269. I've updated the global catalogue:
https://alucitoidea.hobern.net/catalogue.php
The data are also now in #ChecklistBank ready to update #CatalogurOfLife (and then @gbif) next month:
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New paper today describes nine new many-plume #moth #species:
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1193.111544
With Alucita megaphimus also restored from synonymy, this increases the number of species described globally for the family from 259 to 269. I've updated the global catalogue:
https://alucitoidea.hobern.net/catalogue.php
The data are also now in #ChecklistBank ready to update #CatalogurOfLife (and then @gbif) next month: