INVERTEBRATE ALERT
This blog provides an informal forum for terrestrial invertebrate watchers to post recent sightings of interesting observations in the southern Vancouver Island region. Please send your sightings by email to Jeremy Tatum (tatumjb352@gmail.com). Be sure to include your name, phone number, the species name (common or scientific) of the invertebrate you saw, location, date, and number of individuals. If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please send it along. Click on the title above for an index of past sightings.The index is updated most days.

October 21

2019 October 21

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin yesterday morning:

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

1 Dryotype opina

1 Hypena californica 

7 Sunira sp.

 

and from this morning:

 

2 Agrochola purpurea

1 Epirrita autumnata

4 Sunira decipiens

2 Sunira verberata

1 Tetracis sp.

 

 

 

Sunira decipiens/Sunira verberata   is another of these very difficult pairs.  We  (Libby Avis, Jochen Möhr, Jeremy Tatum) believe (hope?!) that the two Sunira  species below are labelled correctly.   And we also show the somewhat similar Agrochola purpurea.  Jochen photographed all three species on the same night, to  make a good comparison.


Agrochola purpurea Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Sunira verberata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 



Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Tetracis jubararia/pallulata  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Epirrita autumnata  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr