Taxonomy | Geometridae | Obeidia tigrata
Well here's news that affects one of the most observed moth species in Hong Kong..... Obeidia tigrata
I have been rumaging through the newly available issues of Tinea (pdf) (volumes 10 to 22), and finally found where the change of genus from Obeidia to Epobeidia came from - Inoue, 2003, Tinea 17: 143.
Further - the HK version is referable to the nominate subspecies, with all orange ground colour. Now.... I've done the necessary updates to the iNat database, but there are hundreds of observations that will be in need of the id refining to subspecies......
All the Hong Kong (and Macau, Vietnam, India & southern mainland China) observations with no white on the hindwings are now referable to Epobeidia tigrata tigrata.
The other subspecies are E. t. leopardaria (Oberthür, 1881) from western Honshu (Japan), the Korean peninsula, as well as (at least) Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in mainland China; and E. t. maxima, which is restricted to the island of Taiwan.
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Hi,
went through some observations of E. tigrata, and it seems that there are some nice goodies lurking amongst them. Tigrata has been used as a dustbin species name, maybe also through AI. I do not know, but to me it seems that it has somehow been a well-known species, and many moths with orange background and dots have been all-too-quickly IDed there... It is good to have Inoue's remarkable paper (@ http://publ.moth.jp/tinea/tinea17-3.pdf) at hand when checking E. tigrata...; I just started, will continue when duties are less... ;)
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