#plumemoth — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #plumemoth, aggregated by home.social.
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This new record in #iNaturalist from last week near #Darwin NT seems to be the first image of a species that is barely identifiable from the original 2006 description. #Australia has six named #PlumeMoth species in the genus Xyroptila, but I'm only slowly and painfully working out the appearance of each of these.
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/390524305
#Lepidoptera #moth #Pterophoridae #entomology
Photo CC BY-SA Lachlan Copeland
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I've been sorting the Australian #PlumeMoth specimens in the Australian National #Insect #Collection. #ANIC includes a few specimens collected in the wider region. One of them is this extraordinary plume moth collected by W.W. Brandt in July/August 1958 in Kiambaui / Kiambowe in north-eastern #PapuaNewGuinea. Sadly, it's not properly set, so it's hard to photograph well.
The location is here:
The basic colour pattern is not uncommon here in #Australia in #Gelechioidea and #Tineidae, but I've never seen any plume moth with markings at all similar.
It will be a new species in the tribe #Platyptiliini, probably somewhere close to #Xyroptila.
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@futurebird I thought the same when I saw something similar, imagined a little dragon.
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This #PlumeMoth species was previously last recorded in the ACT (as far as I know) back in 1950. I'd been thinking of planning visits to #Namadgi to look for it next summer, but I just found one in #NatureMapr identified (then) as Platyptilia celidotus. I added the identification and it's been accepted by others, so this record can now flow correctly into the #AtlasOfLivingAustralia and then @gbif
Stenoptilia leuconephes
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/09/20/some-sporting-highlights/
A split medal in the Heptathlon and the world athletics championships, the women's rugby world cup semi-finals, an #AutismAcceptance just a cuppa morning at King's Lynn Library and a photo gallery.
#athletics #WorldAthleticsChampionship #Heptathlon #rugby #WomensRugbyWorldCup #CanadavNewZealand #EnglandvFrance #Autism #AutismAcceptance #photography #birds #insects #bees #butterflies #moths #PlumeMoth #bugs #larvae -
I just saw this record in #iNaturalist:
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/200710267
It's the first in iNat for the plume #moth species Deuterocopus honoratus. Neither the #AtlasOfLivingAustralia nor @gbif currently has any records for the species. It may well be that this is the first record of the species since the type specimen was collected around Brisbane in March 1897. That specimen is in the Natural History Museum in London and clearly not one of those they have so far databased.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocopus_honoratus
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808840
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Twenty-plume Moth, with wings more like a birds feathered wing, with 6 plumes on each forewing, hence its scientific name Alucita hexadactyla. UK's only member of this family, and it's larva feeds on Honeysuckle. Both common and beautiful. about 2cm across.
#Lepidoptera #Moth #PlumeMoth #Nature -
I only use the front-facing camera on my phone for video-conferences. I never take selfies - who needs to see that ...
But this #Colombian #PlumeMoth (no species identification yet, but I did get some real photos of it) came indoors with me after I checked my #moth light last night.
I currently maintain the global species list for this family of moths:
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Still very quiet here. Frame 4 includes two of the commonest local #Geometridae
The larger greyish species is Phelotis cognata (Ennominae).
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/321369-Phelotis-cognata
The smaller yellowish species is Scopula rubraria (Sterrhinae).
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/244344-Scopula-rubraria
To the top left of the frame is one of the commoner local #PlumeMoth species Sinpunctiptilia emissalis.
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/311353-Sinpunctiptilia-emissalis
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At The City Park with Morning Glories and the Morning Glory Plume Moth
📷 Canon R10 Mirrorless - EF-S 17-135mm Lens - ISO:1250 - Aperture: f/9 Shutter Speed: Varied
#Photo #Photography #CityPark #Flowers #Insect #MoringGlory #PlumeMoth #Closeup #MILC #Mirrorless #CanonR10 #GiMP
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This #iNaturalist record seems perhaps to be the first record of the #PlumeMoth Michaelophorus shafferi since it was described in 1999 from a single specimen collected in 1982. It's an unusual and attractive species.
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Two shots from #AutomatedMothTrap, Canberra ACT, 2022-12-12 02:57, 03:41
Image 1 includes:
First #stonefly (#Plecoptera) I've noticed on the sheet
#HawkMoth #Hippotion scrofa
#PlumeMoth #Stenoptilia zophodactylus
Pink-winged #Geometridae #Arhodia lasiocamparia
Tiny striped #GrassMoth #Scoparia spelaea
#Derbidae #Planthopper #Saccharodite chrysonoe
Other #Lepidoptera (Geometridae, #Oecophoridae, #Crambidae #Pyralidae), #Trichoptera, #Neuroptera, #Diptera and #Hemiptera
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@pogomcl It's hard to imagine many contexts where #PlumeMoth #larvae truly impact crop production. They are small and not conspicuously gregarious and/or voracious.
The Starfruit Plume Moth (#Diacrotricha fasciola, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/211098-Diacrotricha-fasciola) seems to be a pest because they bore into the fruit and presumably lower its marketability.
And two species have been introduced for biosecurity in #Australia (#Wheeleria spilodactylus for Marrubium vulgare, #Hellinsia balanotes for Baccharis halimifolia).
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Google has selected a #PlumeMoth (#Lepidoptera: #Pterophoridae: Pterophorus pentadactyla) to represent the #insect order #Zoraptera.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Zoraptera
This surprised me greatly, but it seems zorapterans are "commonly known as angel insects" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoraptera), which was an even bigger surprise, and the plume moth image has been tagged "angel insect". After all, it is white and feathery and presumably suitable for inspirational posters.
Bring on the AI-powered knowledgeverse ...
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Is #MothMonday a thing here? This is a mousy plume moth (Lioptilodes albistriolatus), a tiny species often found in this erect posture. It can do the typical "T" posture, too, like most #Pterophoridae. Wingspan is approximately 1 cm.
#Lepidoptera #entomology #PlumeMoth
