A Noctuid moth at Bolivia, NSW
Identification history
| Heliocheilus aleurota | 16 Apr 2025 | ibaird | ||
| Heliocheilus moribunda | 16 Apr 2025 | donhe | ||
| Heliocheilus moribunda | 15 Apr 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Unverified | 2 Apr 2025 | PJH123 |
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User's notes
Heliocheilus ??
4 comments
donhe
wrote:
2 Apr 2025
The thorax looks rather worn, so it may have lost pattern scales from the wings, so could be Heliocheilus ferruginosa, although a bit far south ?
ibaird
wrote:
2 Apr 2025
Heliocheilus aleurota? A much more widespread species which has the black wing markings.
donhe
wrote:
2 Apr 2025
All the Heliocheilus sp other than H. ferruginosa seem to have faint or no forewing submarginal arc of dots which would persist after the eroding of the scales that this specimen has suffered.
ibaird
wrote:
16 Apr 2025
I note that most of the ID'd sightings of Heliocheilus moribunda on iNaturaliast lack the forewing submarginal arc of dots and/or a dark coloured thorax. For example, I suggest Sighting 4373480 may have been misidentified and is in fact H. aleurota?
Location information
- Places Bolivia, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- PJH123 Recorded by
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Deepwater PJH123 NatureMapr New England Latest Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Heliocheilus moribunda Scientific name
- A Noctuid moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 782.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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