{"id":6645,"date":"2018-07-16T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T23:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:48:05","slug":"july-6-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=6645","title":{"rendered":"July 16 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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July 16 evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>This morning\u2019s crop of Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths were relatively easy to identify.\u00a0 Now we come to the more difficult ones.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Triphosa haesitata\/Coryphista meadii<\/em> is a notoriously difficult pair.\u00a0 The latter has several different forms, the most common of which can be terribly hard to distinguish from haesitata<\/em>.\u00a0 On the outer margin of the hindwing of Jochen\u2019s moth below, the fourth tooth is much smaller than the adjacent teeth.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s probably good enough to label it safely as Coryphista meadii<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Coryphista meadii <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The problem with Iridopsis<\/em> is that there seems no general agreement as to whether I. larvaria <\/em>\u00a0and I. emasculata <\/em>(also spelled emasculatum<\/em>) are truly separate species, or whether they should be lumped as one.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 I believe they are quite different animals, and that Jochen\u2019s is a slightly faded Iridopsis emasculata<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Iridopsis emasculata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The problem with Sicya <\/em>is that there seems no general agreement as to whether S. macularia <\/em>\u00a0and S. crocearia <\/em>are truly separate species, or whether they should be lumped as one.\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 Unlike the case for iridopsis<\/em>, I have no opinion one way or the other.\u00a0 In looking at published pictures of aduilts and larvae, I see conflicting evidence.\u00a0 In the adults, there seems to be no consistent reliable feature for telling one from the other, so I would say they are all one species.\u00a0\u00a0 On the other hand, there seem to be two distinct caterpillars, suggesting that they are separate species.\u00a0 I\u2019ll label Jochen\u2019s moth with an either\/or.<\/p>\n

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Sicya macularia<\/em>\/crocearia <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>The next one presents no particular identification problems \u2013 I just accidentally missed it out in this morning\u2019s posting.<\/p>\n

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Gabriola dyari <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 After that splendid series of moths, it\u2019s time for a butterfly.\u00a0\u00a0 It is now mid-July, so it\u2019s Pine White <\/strong>time.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a male photographed by Judith Terry.<\/p>\n

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Pine White Neophasia menapia <\/em>(Lep.: Pieridae)\u00a0 Judith Terry<\/p>\n

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July 16 evening \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This morning\u2019s crop of Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths were relatively easy to identify.\u00a0 Now we come to the more difficult ones. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Triphosa haesitata\/Coryphista meadii is a notoriously difficult pair.\u00a0 The latter has several different forms, the most common of which can be terribly hard to distinguish from haesitata.\u00a0 On the […]<\/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-6645","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\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}