Herminiine moth at Lilli Pilli, NSW
Identification history
| Simplicia caeneusalis | 7 Jun 2020 | jb2602 | ||
| Simplicia caeneusalis | 7 Jun 2020 | ibaird | ||
| Simplicia caeneusalis | 4 Jun 2020 | jb2602 | ||
| Simplicia caeneusalis | 4 Jun 2020 | ibaird | ||
| Simplicia cornicalis | 2 Jun 2020 | jb2602 |
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3 comments
jb2602
wrote:
2 Jun 2020
That should have been the Eribid moth Simplicia cornicalis but
i cant access Manage Taxonomy to add the species
i cant access Manage Taxonomy to add the species
ibaird
wrote:
7 Jun 2020
No, good question. Two distinct species., according to Bold Systems 4. They look very similar. S. caeneusalis apparently occurs in SE Asia and the Pacific (BS4 only has a record from Malaysia) whereas S. cornicalis is shown to be native to eastern coastal Australia only ranging from N Queensland to southern NSW. The ALA shows both species within the Simplicia genus category online, whereas it recognises only S. caeneusalis as a species is in its own right which apparently follows the Australian Faunal Directory which only recognizes S. caeneusalis. Wikepedia treats them as equivalent. The Wikipedia entry says: 'Simplicia caeneusalis was placed in synonymy with Simplicia cornicalis by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 2008 after examination of the genitalia of the type in Copenhagen. I suggest we follow the AFD and by implication the ALA and merge the two to be S. caeneusalis for our purposes. I cannot tell any difference visually.
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Location information
- Coordinates 150.233119-35.777678
- Places Lilli Pilli, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 2 Jun 2020 07:15 AM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
Species information
- Simplicia caeneusalis Scientific name
- Herminiine moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 624.96m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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