TAXON-SPECIFIC Literature online

The sun-moths of Western Australia (Western Australian Museum), http://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/WAMRecords_2016_31(2)_90to162_WILLIAMSetal_1.pdf
DNA Analysis Finds New Diamondback Moth Species in Australia, https://entomologytoday.org/2013/08/30/dna-analysis-finds-new-diamondback-moth-species-in-australia/

Synemon plana — Golden Sun Moth, http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=25234

Australian Hepialidae, https://australianhepialidae.wordpress.com/

Phyllodes imperialis smithersi — Pink Underwing Moth, http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=86084

Revising the Nacophorini moths of southern Australia (Nov 2017, work on Thalaina sp.), https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/revising-the-nacapherini-moths-of-southern-australia/9139696

Macroglossinae Summary (LEP BARCODE: AUSTRALIA); http://lepbarcoding.org/australia/progress_reports.php?region=1&lvl=subfamily&type=Macroglossinae

Hepialidae (ghost moths) and other Exoporia of the world; http://johngrehan.net/index.php/hepialidae/

Hepialidae: Abantiades; http://johngrehan.net/index.php/hepialidae/abantiades
Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera , https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/150/2/343/2607402

Description of Crypsiphona tasmanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae), with notes on limitations in using DNA barcodes for delimiting species, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-6055.2009.00695.x

Australian Sphingidae – DNA Barcodes Challenge Current Species Boundaries and Distributions (2014), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079597/

The Australian Arctiid Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) with emphasis on Creatonotos gangis (Jun 2012, Peter Hendry); http://www.boic.org.au/files/The%20Australian%20Arctiid%20Moths.pdf

REVIEW OF AUSTRALIAN PHYLLODES IMPERIALIS DRUCE (LEPIDOPTERA: EREBIDAE) WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES FROM SUBTROPICAL (2012); https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=csiro:EP121773&dsid=DS5

OCT 2020
Citizen science reveals the Palaearctic poison hemlock moth Agonopterix alstroemeriana (Clerck) (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae) has established in Australia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779962.2020.1820125

Welcome to the unnamed ANIC Initiative where we endeavour to capture some of the data generated within iNaturalist on presumptive moth taxa matching un-named specimens in BOLD Systems.

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Crambidae

Dysallacta ANIC 1

Search ALL:

more than 50 obs. in iNat [20 Jan 2022]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lrank=genus&place_id=6744&subview=map&taxon_id=501101
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=26246
OBS: 5 Sep 2021 NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93653223

Metasia near ANIC 10 ALT: ANIC 9
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=18718
OBS: 5 Nov 2016, NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4498301

Metasia ANIC 15 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimen.php?specimenID=6146
OBS: 11 Oct 2016 NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4331099
OBS: 25 Sep 2021 NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96195466

Synclera spA.
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=26663
OBS: 26 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105355785

Trigonoorda ANIC 4
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=30059
OBS: 19 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105256664

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Depressariidae

Acraephnes near ANIC MK2 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=17453
OBS: 4 Nov 2021, VIC; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105389691

Eupselia near ANIC 132 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=2624
OBS: 5 Sep 2021 NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93653223

Eupselia near ANIC MK19 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=20883
OBS:8 Oct 2021 NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97517584

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Erebidae

Luceria ANIC 2 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=14738
OBS: 4 Sep 2021, NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93638944
OBS: 15 Jan 2022, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105252634

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Gelechiidae

Ardozyga near ANIC 13 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=16462
OBS: 2 Oct 2021, NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96868993

Hypatima ANIC 24 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=22915

OBS: 18 Jan 2022, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105189019

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Geometridae

Aporoctena ANIC 1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=17831
OBS: 26 Jan 2022, VIC; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105415772

Comostola ANIC 1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=20292
OBS: 6 March 2012, W.A.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105150232

Dinophalus ANIC 2 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=19455
OBS:27 Oct 2017, W.A.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106739679

Dinophalus ANIC 11 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=17596
OBS:7 Sep 2011, W.A.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106741623

Dinophalus ANIC 12 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=12235
OBS: 18 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106741815

Gastrinopa ANIC 5 .
REF:https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=27504
OBS: 30 Nov 2021, W.A. ; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105414270

Paraterpna undescribed .
REF: Moths of Victoria, Part 4, p.30.
OBS: 22 Jan 2022, VIC. ; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105415623

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Noctuidae

Micrapatetis ANIC 1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=40702
OBS: 28 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105396264

Technemon ANIC 2 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=5034
OBS: 26 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105355786

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Nolidae

Narangodes ANIC 1

REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=25247
OBS: 19 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105256658

Nola ANIC 16 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=16829
OBS: 12 Feb 2022, VIC; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106738828

Paracrama ANIC 1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=33222
OBS: 23 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105348552

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Pyralidae

Lophothoracia ANIC 1 .
REF: https://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=362591
OBS: 16 Aug 2017, N.S.W.; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7517671

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Oecophoridae

Piloprepes sp. ANIC 5 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=15415
OBS: 4 Nov 2021, VIC. ; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105389698

Wingia sp. ANIC1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=37069
OBS: 20 Jan 2022, W.A. ; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105232326

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Tineidae

Edosa sp. near ANIC 1 .
REF:https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=29858
OBS: 12 Sep 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/97402359

Edosa sp. near ANIC 12 .
REF:https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=17446
OBS: 24 Oct 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99787573

Edosa sp. near ANIC19 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=42312
OBS: 19 Jan 2022, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102454796

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Tortricidae

Onebala sp. ANIC1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=24070
OBS: 19 Jan 2022 QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105201972

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Xyloryctidae

Plectophila sp. ANIC8 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=4117
OBS: 26 Dec 2021, QLD; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105355759

Pilostibes sp. ANIC1 .
REF: https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=24522
OBS: 15 Feb 2020 NSW; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40351674

Family Geometridae

Subfamily Archiearinae

iNaturalist Taxa = None; BOLD taxa = 5

Acalyphes philorites {Tasmania}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=17101
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4d02d763-a4fa-4fbb-b3d8-a574dea441b9#overview
Dirce aesiodora {Tasmania}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=11848
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e22a0df0-97c7-4b3f-abd5-859ee69bbcc9#overview
Dirce lunaris {Tasmania}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=29557
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4ca00b3b-5796-40af-adb5-b5315d7825f1#overview
Dirce oriplancta {Tasmania}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=41205
Dirce solaris {Tasmania}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=24442

Subfamily Desmobathrinae*

iNaturalist Taxa = 2, BOLD Taxa = 6, ALA Taxa = 2 additional

Celerena griseofusa {Cape York}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=17099
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a44bc265-a3ab-4729-b3f4-4387535e9251#overview
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1118380-Celerena-griseofusa
Derambila catharina
AFD; https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Derambila_catharina
Derambilia idiosceles
AFD; https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Derambila_idiosceles
Derambila liosceles {Cape York}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=19876
Derambila permensata {Cape York}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=23698
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:cf2dfe1a-6bb9-49fb-b47f-5597e8b45ab9#overview
Encryphia frontisignata {n. coastal N.S.W.}
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxonID=34476
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5eff452e-efe1-4bd5-9ef3-e35e4ae1b613#overview
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/891480-Encryphia-frontisignata

Links to discussions of identification / species limits in Australian Moths with special attention to critical examination of resources/references used in the identification process.

Chrysodeixis with notes on agnata / eriosoma /illuminata [4 Oct 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89577836
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58461580

Gastrinopa xylistis vs Cryphaea xylina [Sep 2020]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52647839

Hippotion brennus vs johanna
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98679609

Metasia zinckenialis / Diathrausta ochreipennis
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69306463

Philenora [update 27 Sep 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96066529

Tachystola stenoptera / thiasotis / ANIC 15
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110819586

Thallarcha [update 12 Sep 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/94310747#activity_comment_dafe1c23-2ea0-4029-88ac-4031f4dd0b95

"Trachydora centromela"
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25582028#activity_comment_2023f40b-029a-4cf4-b60d-d078683c4b31

Trichiocercus sp.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104800865#activity_comment_105c9717-920a-4a80-9483-4a5c838c0f92

Taxonomic issues involving moth entries in iNaturalist arise periodically and often an informative discussion ensues regarding a resolution. I have found a need to reference these discussions only to have some difficulty locating them. And these are the conversations with which I participated. The purpose for this directory is to provide a handy guide to those discussions.

It is a work in progress with links added as I come across relevant material. Readers are encouraged to add appropriate links in the comments.

Arctiidae

Ardices / Spilosoma
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21736163

Lobobasis niveimaculata / Heterotropa fastosa
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28934506

Oeonistis delia vs altica in Australia [9 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25534197

Cosmopteriginae

Anatrachynitis vs Pyroderces
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8969903

Crambidae

Cnaphalocrocis var sp.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21128614
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57013890
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56590895

Nausinoe perspectata ... ref. for synonymy of pueritia.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106145360

Palpita sp. especially vitrealis/unionalis/ in Australia [7 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69038211

Pygospila sp. bivittalis vs tyres [10 Feb 2012]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/47239207

Erebidae

Ataboruza over Nechisia or Zagira
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10798750

Bastilla joviana ssp. curvisecta
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/42555537

Eublemma ... versicolor vs latistriga (synonymy) and raising perversicolor [11 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/43864983

Goniocraspedon mistura (Swinhoe, 1891); Erebidae; Hypeninae
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35230717

"Hypena masuralis" = obacerralis with notes on Rynchina
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/81480058#activity_comment_32cd8b72-d69b-41e3-b5ed-1391968bd72a

Miltochrista over Cyme (formerly Lyclene)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/67014

Rusicada over Anomis (combinans)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10164240

Sommeria over Digama
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73158563#activity_comment_126dcff9-4cfe-4479-b20f-8d1bd0d9fed7

Tathorhychus fallax over T. exsiccata [Aug 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89848575#activity_comment_6269f19b-d595-4e49-9626-153c3883e254

Thermesia cariosa / Oruza / Hemeroblemma
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20310275

Geometridae

Eucymatoge peplodes and the question of synonymy with Epyaxa sodaliata.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11151819

The placement of Mesoptila (Eupithecia) melanolopha
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9329134

Disposition of "Boarmia"
'Hypomecis" phloeopa
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11384913

"Hypomecis" externaria
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37676910

Hypomecis agoraea vs Selidosema agoraea [11 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50667515

Hypomecis / Boarmia and the placement of Dyscheralcis crimnodes
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/12723244

Comibaena partita / Uliocnemis partita / Protuliocnemis partita
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24754553

Azelina over Pero or Metrocampa ... for "unplaced" biplaga in ALA
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20752720
AND
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10422530

Xanthorhoe xerodes [July 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4763926#activity_comment_f883b16a-8e9e-494b-b6bc-02e31222e592

Noctuidae

Craniophora/Fascionycta/Cycloprora/Turnerinycta
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19510576

Euplexia polycmeta = unplaced genus / iNat placement
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20306810
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96844893#activity_comment_d914c7eb-e35c-40cb-b65a-02e1ad0d8fdf

Nolidae

Westermannia gloriosa ... synonyms?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20138079

Nola interspersa / Halone interspersa? [11 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37442204

Nola bifascialis [25 Sep 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/messages/1571489

Nola interspersa vs Halone interspersa [ 2 April 2022 ]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15970754

Plotheia (formerly Iscadia / Gadirtha / Ochrothripa) [16 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18401946

Notodontidae

Taxon Swap: Kamalia over Cerura
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_swaps/78372

Plutellidae

Complex Plutella xylostella-australiana
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807746/

Tortricidae

Bathrotoma vs Spilonota
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32636420
and commentary on ID separation from Crocidosema
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32818353

Xyloryctidae

Xylomimetes ... species separation? [19 Feb 2021]
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64813753

Moths of Australia: Project Listing

1) The discrete map provides an at-a-glance sense of the coverage of the respective area ... moreso than the standard map presentation.
2) Under Overview, the observations are present by default as the most recent ... an easy way to keep up with the latest additions.
3) the export feature for collating observations for reports.

Stats below as of this writing:

Queensland, 11, 471 observations, 1625 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-queensland-australia

New South Wales and the A.C.T. ... 15, 448 observations, 1337 species
this project

Victoria ... 945 observations, 308 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-victoria-australia

Tasmania ... 493 observations, 247 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-tasmania-australia

Western Australia ... 414 observations, 177 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-western-australia

South Australia ... 223 observations, 115 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-south-australia-australia

Northern Territory 47 observations, 38 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-northern-territory-australia

Online Australian Moth Identification Resources

INSTITUTIONS

Bold Systems V4, http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php

CSIRO - Australian Moths Online, http://amo.ala.org.au/main.php

Atlas of Living Australia, https://www.ala.org.au/

Butterflies and Moths (Queensland Museum), http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about
/Animals+of+Queensland/Insects/Butterflies+and+moths?tab=6#.XBLQNM1OmUl

Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club, INc. (Moths),
http://www.boic.org.au/index.html?page=/html/mothgallery.html

Australian Faunal Directory - taxonomic inquiry
https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home

CSIRO Systematic Names: Lepidoptera
http://www.ces.csiro.au/aicn/system/_lepidop.htm
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FACEBOOK GROUPS

Australian butterfly & moth Enthusiasts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/799465170167144/

Butterflies, Moths and other Insects of Australia
https://www.facebook.com/groups/170745013686340/

Amateur Entomology Australia
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmateurEntomologyAustralia/

PERSONAL COLLECTIONS/Online guides

Ellura Sanctuary (Moths and Butterflies), https://www.ellura.info/Lepidoptera.html
(Brett Smith)

Moths of Tropical Queensland , http://www.leapfrogoz.com.au/moths-of-tropical-queensland-australia/moth-identification/
(Buck Richardson)

Insects of Townsville (Lepidoptera), https://www.kooka.info/tree.html?page_id=11
(Graeme Cocks)

XYLORYCTINE MOTHS OF AUSTRALIA, http://xyloryctinemothsofaustralia.blogspot.com/
(Ian McMIllan)

Flickr Field Guide: Butterflies & Moths of Australia, https://www.flickr.com/groups/aus_lepidoptera/

Coff's Harbour Butterfly House, Families of Moths in Australia, http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/imagos.html

Brisbane Insects (Moths), http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_moths/

Australian Butterflies and Moths , http://www.pbase.com/conroy11/ausbutflys&page=all
(Gary Sankowski)

Gippsland Mothing, http://www.natureofgippsland.org/mothing/

Egbert Friedrich, http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Australische_Arten

Insects of Tasmania: Lepidoptera,
https://sites.google.com/site/insectsoftasmanialepidoptera/

NE N.S.W. (New England Escarpment): Hawk Moth Collection,
http://butterfliesdorrigo.weebly.com/hawk-moths-gallery.html
Trev and Carol

SITE SPECIFIC Literature

Moth assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in remnants of upland Australian rain forest (Atherton Tablelands, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2000.00490.x

Migrating moths (Lepidoptera) collected in tower-mounted light traps in northern New South Wales, Australia: species composition and seasonal abundance, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-entomological-research/article/migrating-moths-lepidoptera-collected-in-towermounted-light-traps-in-northern-new-south-wales-australia-species-composition-and-seasonal-abundance/7196E215090EA18BFBA6BC93C5B2C435

OFFSHORE SITES

Moths of Borneo, http://www.mothsofborneo.com/