{"id":13875,"date":"2021-04-28T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:30:50","slug":"april-28-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"April 28 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2021 April 28 morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Gordon Usipiuk sends a photograph of a colour variety of <strong>  <em>Coryphista meadii <\/em><\/strong>from &nbsp;Colwood, near the east side of Havenwood Park, on 27 April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 545px; margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"null\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" originalwidth=\"545\" originalheight=\"513\" rszimgcmd=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pastedImage-119.png\"><br \/>  <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Usipiuk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Regular viewers of this site may have noted that from time to time we have had great difficulty distinguishing between this species and  <em>Triphosa haesitata, <\/em>and will wonder why, since Gordon&#8217;s moth is very distinct and looks nothing at all like  <em>T. haesitata<\/em>.&nbsp; <em>C. meadii<\/em> has several very distinct colour varieties, and it is only one of these varieties (a very common one) that closely resembles  <em>T. haesitata<\/em>.&nbsp; Notice that the fourth tooth on the outer margin of the hindwing is much smaller that the other teeth &#8211; a feature that is useful&nbsp; when we are struggling to distinguish between the two species.&nbsp; The larval foodplant of  <em>Coryphista meadii <\/em>&nbsp;is <em>Mahonia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 April 28 morning &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Gordon Usipiuk sends a photograph of a colour variety of Coryphista meadii from &nbsp;Colwood, near the east side of Havenwood Park, on 27 April. &nbsp; Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Gordon Usipiuk &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Regular viewers of this site may have noted that from time to time we have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}