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  1. 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:

    papua-insects.nl/insect%20orde

    #entomology #Lepidoptera

  2. New Guinea villagers unearth evidence of the island’s Neolithic past - Enlarge (credit: Ben Shaw)
    When people in New Guinea started tending crops like yam and fruits ar... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1666114 #organicresidueanalysis #ancientpeopledidstuff #indigenouscommunities #archaeology #neolithic #newguinea #science #oceania #lapita