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DiBickers
wrote:
6 min ago
Hi Cristy1676, thanks for your sighting. The media you provided is missing or unclear. To help us verify this sighting, please provide additional media.
Unverified True fly (Diptera)
DiBickers
wrote:
10 min ago
@MazzV these aren’t the same as the Sighting 4664477 which I just ID’d for you. These are definitely ants, whereas the other sighting were Ant-mimics (but actually flies)😊
Unverified Ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
WendyEM
wrote:
1 hr ago
from (thanks to https://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/pyra/poeodes.html)
A. Jefferis Turner, A preliminary revision of the Australian Thyrididae and Pyralidae. II,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Volume 19 (1905), p. 54.
poeodes = grass green description of a male "Head and palpi greenish-grey. Antennae whitish. Thorax green. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish irrotated and annulated with fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique; bright green with a very few fuscous scales; an irregularly shaped dark-fuscous discal spot at 1/2; a series of dark-fuscous dots on apical third of costa continued round apex sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia whitish. Hindwings with termen sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia-whitish."
A. Jefferis Turner, A preliminary revision of the Australian Thyrididae and Pyralidae. II,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Volume 19 (1905), p. 54.
poeodes = grass green description of a male "Head and palpi greenish-grey. Antennae whitish. Thorax green. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish irrotated and annulated with fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique; bright green with a very few fuscous scales; an irregularly shaped dark-fuscous discal spot at 1/2; a series of dark-fuscous dots on apical third of costa continued round apex sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia whitish. Hindwings with termen sinuate; whitish-grey; cilia-whitish."
Heteromicta pachytera
WendyEM
wrote:
1 hr ago
Heteromicta poeodes -
green colours fade to straw in older museum specimens
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimen.php?processid=ANICQ301-11
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=254838
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/8ea09b36-8cea-41b4-a277-0bb798ce3acf#names
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=781656&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
I note the above image is on iNat but not yet verified, this is probably just a volunteer resources issue (as with all of these citizen science sites)
green colours fade to straw in older museum specimens
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimen.php?processid=ANICQ301-11
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=254838
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/8ea09b36-8cea-41b4-a277-0bb798ce3acf#names
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=781656&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
I note the above image is on iNat but not yet verified, this is probably just a volunteer resources issue (as with all of these citizen science sites)
Heteromicta pachytera
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