Barneys Hill/Mt Stranger

This map covers a portion of Barneys Hill/Mt Stranger which has had high quality understory native flora.

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ibaird wrote:
3 Jun 2023
I went mainly on the antennae. I think species specimens within O. antipoda seem quite variable so I would be hard put to pick a characteristic pattern.

Oxycanus antipoda
donhe wrote:
3 Jun 2023
The wing pattern is very unusual. To me it looks most like the western species O. occidentalis and O. perdita. I wonder if it could be a blow-in or a hybrid.

Oxycanus antipoda
ibaird wrote:
27 May 2023
Fair comment, however In many cases the wing pattern cannot be relied on alone to distinguish Oxycanus species. O. sylvanus and O. antipoda are difficult to distinguish. We usually rely on the antennae to distinguish them (using Moths of Victoria's useful visual key as i did in this case) with O. antipoda having slightly longer peçtinations in the male antennae, particularly towards the base, than O. sylvanus. On second thoughts, looking at Moths in the ACT, I think I may have plumped for the wrong option, so I'll throw it open again for Don's consideration.

Oxycanus antipoda
27 May 2023
None of the other specimens of Oxycanus silvanus have such a pattern.

Oxycanus antipoda
donhe wrote:
26 May 2023
Interesting pattern. @ibaird is this a common for this species.?

Oxycanus antipoda

Land area

22.7
ha

Survey effort

6.65
sightings per ha
1,903,523 sightings of 21,215 species in 9,380 locations from 13,060 contributors
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