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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Xylenini » Antitypina » Andropolia » Andropolia theodori - Hodges#9571 (Andropolia theodori)
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Andropolia - theodori or epichysis? - Andropolia theodori
Copyright © 2011 Libby & Rick Avis

Andropolia - theodori or epichysis? - Andropolia theodori
Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
August 15, 2010
AVBC 669-10 BOLD DNA - species match not made. BOLD results indicate:
- 100% match for the only two specimens of A. epichysis in the collection
- For A. theodori, the following matches: 1 specimen each at 100%, 98.85% and 98.54%; 3 specimens at 98.24

Present BC list includes A. epichysis but not A.theodori. Found references on the net to both species separately & also to what sounds like a subspecies - A. theodori epichysis. Not sure what gives!
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Contributed by Libby & Rick Avis on 8 March, 2011 - 10:19pm
Last updated 9 March, 2011 - 9:04pm

Moved
Moved from Andropolia.
… Libby & Rick Avis, 9 March, 2011 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

it
makes me wonder what mine were
… Edna Woodward, 9 March, 2011 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

 
Yeah
I know. Originally thought it was the same as yours - & it looks like it probably is. Still wading my way through all my BOLD results. Have been a few surprises so far - can't take anything for granted!
… Libby & Rick Avis, 9 March, 2011 - 9:03pm login or register to post comments

Andropolia theodori
is the only one of the two species listed in Lafontaine & Schmidt's 2010 Noctuoidea checklist. There is no mention of A. epichysis as either a species, synonym, or subspecies in that work; however, in Poole's 1989 Noctuidae revision he lists A. epichysis as a synonym of Andropolia theodori. As you mentioned, I have found several internet sources that list A. epichysis as a subspecies, but I havn't found a source to verify if that designation is correct.
… Chris Mallory, 8 March, 2011 - 11:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Chris
...that was a real help. Originally thought it might be a synonym but wasn't sure - looking increasingly like it. Think I'll move it to A. theodori.

Also wasn't aware of the 2010 update to the Noctuoidea list. Really appreciate finding out about that - have just downloaded it!
… Libby & Rick Avis, 9 March, 2011 - 9:01pm login or register to post comments

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