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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/09/20/some-sporting-highlights/
A split medal in the Heptathlon and the world athletics championships, the women's rugby world cup semi-finals, an #AutismAcceptance just a cuppa morning at King's Lynn Library and a photo gallery.
#athletics #WorldAthleticsChampionship #Heptathlon #rugby #WomensRugbyWorldCup #CanadavNewZealand #EnglandvFrance #Autism #AutismAcceptance #photography #birds #insects #bees #butterflies #moths #PlumeMoth #bugs #larvae

Some Sporting Highlights

A historic happening at the world athletics championships in Tokyo, the women’s rugby world cup semi-finals, an autism acceptance just a cuppa morning and a photo gallery.

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Felix Aug 23

The plume moth prooves that aliens live among us.

Die Federmotte ist der Beweis, dass Außerirdische unter uns weilen.

#plumeMoth
#Federmotte
#Oxyptilus
#Pterophoridae

Donald Hobern May 27, 2025

I just saw this record in #iNaturalist:

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/200710267

It's the first in iNat for the plume #moth species Deuterocopus honoratus. Neither the #AtlasOfLivingAustralia nor @gbif currently has any records for the species. It may well be that this is the first record of the species since the type specimen was collected around Brisbane in March 1897. That specimen is in the Natural History Museum in London and clearly not one of those they have so far databased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocopus_honoratus

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808840

https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/1b05e2a2-25fa-46bd-9b6f-ea18413b0cf3#overview

https://www.gbif.org/species/1858944

#Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #PlumeMoth #entomology

Subfamily Deuterocopinae

Deuterocopinae from Witta QLD 4552, Australia on February 28, 2024 at 01:19 PM by Larney Grenfell

iNaturalist Australia

John Dal May 7, 2025

Twenty-plume Moth, with wings more like a birds feathered wing, with 6 plumes on each forewing, hence its scientific name Alucita hexadactyla. UK's only member of this family, and it's larva feeds on Honeysuckle. Both common and beautiful. about 2cm across.
#Lepidoptera #Moth #PlumeMoth #Nature

Donald Hobern Mar 27, 2025

I only use the front-facing camera on my phone for video-conferences. I never take selfies - who needs to see that ...

But this #Colombian #PlumeMoth (no species identification yet, but I did get some real photos of it) came indoors with me after I checked my #moth light last night.

I currently maintain the global species list for this family of moths:

https://pterophoroidea.hobern.net/catalogue.php

#Lepidoptera #entomology

Catalogue of World Pterophoroidea

ArandaMoths Feb 2, 2025

Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World updated.

New #PlumeMoth species from #SouthAfrica, Agistis zagulajevi:

https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873824040080

Changes to synonymy and new distribution records from #Georgia:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14720696

This feeds into #CatalogueOfLife and @gbif.

Latest version available on #ChecklistBank:

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/1199/about

#Lepidoptera #Pterophoridae #taxonomy #entomology #NewSpecies #BiodiversityInformatics @dhobern

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Donald Hobern Jan 31, 2025

@dhobern

Still very quiet here. Frame 4 includes two of the commonest local #Geometridae

The larger greyish species is Phelotis cognata (Ennominae).

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/321369-Phelotis-cognata

The smaller yellowish species is Scopula rubraria (Sterrhinae).

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/244344-Scopula-rubraria

To the top left of the frame is one of the commoner local #PlumeMoth species Sinpunctiptilia emissalis.

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/311353-Sinpunctiptilia-emissalis

Long-fringed Bark Moth (Phelotis cognata)

Phelotis cognata is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in Australia. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phelotis_cognata, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) Donald Hobern, some rights reserved (CC BY))

iNaturalist Australia

shannon Jul 4, 2024

the first time I saw a plume moth I thought it wasn't a living being. I simply thought it must be a piece of straw or a piece of dried plant matter. it wasn't. they are so incredibly intricate and beyond belief. and I got to capture another one on the common milkweed the other day! (one day I will get a macro camera so I can see them in all their glory!) #nativeplants #plumemoth #moths #insects #naturalist #rewilding #milkweed