Insects
Moths (Lepidoptera)
Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae)
Sighting 4678276

Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 (BOLD)

A Crambid moth (Spilomelinae at Bloomsbury, QLD

Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 (BOLD) at Bloomsbury, QLD - 19 Oct 2008 09:39 PM
Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 (BOLD) at Bloomsbury, QLD - 19 Oct 2008 09:39 PM
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Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 (BOLD) 23 Jun 2025 WendyEM
Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 (BOLD) 23 Jun 2025 ibaird
Unverified 23 Jun 2025 PJH123

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Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 https://portal.boldsystems.org/result?query=%22Cirrhochrista%20sp.%20AAI4047%22[tax]

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WendyEM wrote:
   23 Jun 2025
Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047
https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=1157533
donhe wrote:
   24 Jun 2025
@PJH123 : how is this different from say C. aetherialis or C. brizoalis?
WendyEM wrote:
   24 Jun 2025
Cirrhochrista aetherialis lacks the russet markings on the abdomen, wing markings are paler and smaller.
https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=77184
Cirrhochrista brizoalis has fine peppering to larger patterns of dots over the wings. The shape of the coloured markings on the thorax is different It has a line running from each eye, joining 1/2-way down thorax, white on head and between these lines. (Cirrhochrista sp. AAI4047 - white head and coloured line down centre of thorax.
https://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=313965
PJH123 wrote:
   24 Jun 2025
@donhe : Don, aetherialis has a white abdomen. While in brizoalis the triangular fascia near the apex on the forewing joins the triangular fascia near the apex on the termen often only by a series of faint dots or dashes.
There is a lot about aetherialis and brizoalis I cannot fathom. In the literature aetherialis is often shown as a synonym of brizoalis. In fact, the GloBiz website has it as such. The AFD only has aetherialis even though the type location for brizoalis is given as Hong Kong and “Moreton” Bay
donhe wrote:
   25 Jun 2025
Great, thanks.

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