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LandschaftsfotosTeich und Bäume
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Ullersdorf, Waldhufen
Autor: Jürgen Starovsky
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2029
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Jon SullivanFor the third in my hat-trick of exciting NZ Lepidoptera news stories, here is an observation over Christmas of a Mokarakare · Rauparaha's Copper (Lycaena rauparaha). It's likely the first seen anywhere in or between Lincoln and Christchurch in over a century.
Rauparaha's Copper butterfly was described as a species back in 1877 by Christchurch lawyer and lepidopterist R. W. Fereday (there's a career combination you don't often see these days). He collected specimens in Kaiapoi and Fendalton, Christchurch city, in 1866 and 1867.
The butterfly still can be common in coastal areas further north in NZ, but it's been very rarely seen anywhere in mid-Canterbury over the past 100 years.
There was great excitement in 2014 when Chris Morse uploaded to iNaturalist some photos he'd taken in 2004 of Rauparaha's Coppers along a muehlenbeckia-lined farm hedge in Irwell, Canterbury. Since then, there have been several sightings of the butterfly around Irwell, but never to the north.
That is, until Christmas Eve 2025, when Will Frost photographed this one in his garden between Lincoln and Prebbleton.
Hopefully it's the beginning of a gradual expansion back into its home territory.
Photo CC-BY-NC Will Frost.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/333646061
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*Bascantis sirenica* is back!!
Last week Wellington-based naturalist Christopher Stephens found and photographed this small, dark purple moth with two pale spots. Christopher found it in the Tararua Ranges.
The species has not been seen since 1944! NZ's professional moth taxonomist Robert Hoare had feared it might be extinct. This is only the 7th time, ever, that this pretty little day-flying moth has been recorded.
*Bascantis sirenica* is a NZ endemic species and the only species in a NZ endemic genus. Welcome back!
There's still so much to learn about NZ moths.
The photo is CC-BY-SA by Christopher Stephens.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337727454
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Introducing *Austramathes coelacantha*!
I uploaded this moth to iNaturalist from my moth lighting last month in the NZ mountains. It's now the first iNat record of this NZ endemic moth, which was first described as a species in 2017.
This adds to the five records of the species on GBIF from the NZ Arthropod Collection (four specimens from 1975 and one from 2023).
It's known (so far) from shrublands and beech forests of central and eastern South Island. Its caterpillars have not been confirmed yet, although they're expected to be on *Melicytus* (mahoe and relatives).
Big thanks go to NZ moth expert Neville Hudson for identifying this. Neville has so far made 171,359(!) species identifications on iNaturalist, almost all moths, and all done for free. It's an extraordinary contribution to our knowledge of NZ moths.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/338636198
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Joseph SalmonInternship / Ph.D. proposal (w. J-B Fermanian):
"Exploring Conformal Prediction in Long-Tail Scenarios"
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Ochsenbastei oberhalb der Uferstraße
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Görlitz
Autor: anonym
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1469
