{"id":4699,"date":"2017-07-31T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:17:36","slug":"july-31-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2017 July 31<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ken Vaughan photographed the moth below in the Highlands on July 29.\u00a0 Libby Avis identifies it as Scopula quinquelinearia<\/em><\/strong>. She quotes from the new BC Lepidoptera List:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis taxon (i.e. quinquelinearia) was historically treated as a subspecies of S. junctaria<\/em> (Walker) but was raised to species status by Pohl et al<\/em>. (2010).” The 2010 reference is to the revised Alberta Lepidoptera List. Extract from the Alberta appendix below:<\/p>\n

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Scopula quinquelinearia <\/em>(Packard, 1870) REVISED STATUS This taxon was treated as a subspecies of S. junctaria (Walker) by Covell (1970). The two taxa are sympatric in southwestern Alberta (Waterton\u2013Crowsnest Pass region), without evidence of intergradation. Molecular data indicate a divergence of about 1.5% (in the \u201cbar code\u201d fragment of the cox1 gene of mitochondrial DNA) between these two southern mountain populations. We therefore revert to treating both as full species.”<\/p>\n

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You can see one of Libby\u2019s photographs of this new species at<\/p>\n

mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu\/species.php?hodges=7164.1<\/p>\n

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Scopula quinquelinearia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Ken Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tatum photographed a moth at his Saanich apartment this morning:<\/p>\n

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Xanthorhoe defensaria <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 There are now to be found, on Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake, caterpillars of the Red Admiral<\/strong> on the nettles.\u00a0 Here is one of them:<\/p>\n

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Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta <\/em>(Lep.: Nymphalidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 He continues:\u00a0 At 6:00 pm today there were Painted <\/strong>and West Coast Ladies<\/strong>, and Western Tiger <\/strong>and Anise Swallowtails<\/strong>, at the top of Mount Tolmie.<\/p>\n

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Jochen Moehr writes:\u00a0 I spotted this fellow on my driveway in Metchosin:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Monochamus mutator <\/em>(Col.: Cerambycidae)\u00a0 Jochen Moehr<\/p>\n

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2017 July 31 \u00a0 Ken Vaughan photographed the moth below in the Highlands on July 29.\u00a0 Libby Avis identifies it as Scopula quinquelinearia. She quotes from the new BC Lepidoptera List: \u201cThis taxon (i.e. quinquelinearia) was historically treated as a subspecies of S. junctaria (Walker) but was raised to species status by Pohl et al. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4699","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\/4699","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=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}