{"id":9455,"date":"2019-09-26T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2019-10-01T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:22:10","slug":"september-26-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9455","title":{"rendered":"September 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2019 September 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths from Metchosin this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Drepanulatrix <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Nadata gibbosa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>5 Pleromelloida cinerea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Lithomoia germana<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Sunira decipiens<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 In the original description of the moth below I had misidentified it as a probable <em>Schizura ipomoeae<\/em>.\u00a0 Glad to have Libby Avis back from a short trip &#8211; she has corrected the error of my ways!\u00a0 I was even in the wrong Family &#8211; it is a noctuid, not a notodontid.\u00a0 Libby writes: It<span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"> is <strong><i>Lithomoia germana<\/i><\/strong>,\u00a0an unusual looking noctuid. It has much larger, more pronounced spots than <em>S. ipomoeae<\/em> and a very deep abdomen which makes it look a bit top-heavy when it&#8217;s at rest. We quite often get it here (Port Alberni) in late summer\/fall and I&#8217;ve also seen it in Pemberton and at Manning Park. Nice to get a report from the Victoria area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I suppose this might be a case of convergent evolution.\u00a0 Apart from the conspicuous reniform and orbicular spots (typical of a noctuid) it does look rather similar to the notodontid genus <em>Schizura<\/em>.\u00a0 They must have independently discovered how to look like a fragment of bark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"pastedImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pastedImage-139.png\" width=\"597.6\" height=\"335.1923076923077\" name=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"> <i>Lithomoia germana<\/i><\/span>\u00a0(Lep.: Noctuidae)\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 624px; margin: 5px;\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jtatum\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 September 26 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jochen M\u00f6hr\u2019s moths from Metchosin this morning: &nbsp; 1 Drepanulatrix sp. 1 Nadata gibbosa 5 Pleromelloida cinerea 1 Lithomoia germana 1 Sunira decipiens \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum writes:\u00a0 In the original description of the moth below I had misidentified it as a probable Schizura ipomoeae.\u00a0 Glad to have Libby Avis [&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-9455","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\/9455","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=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9481,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}