Eudocima salaminia (Cramer, 1777)

(fruitpiercing Moth)

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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f143dcec-f129-4bf0-b726-233eb9c9999a

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

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WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=species:Eudocima salaminia
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RDF

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

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  • representative image of taxa
    Source: PaDIL
    Image by: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker, Museum Victoria

Description

Adult moth has dark brown forewings (wingspan approx 8 cm) with a dark green sheen, and with a sharply defined broad white border along the edges of the wings. The hind wings are orange, with a black border and black comma in the middle. Source: See weblink Don Herbison-Evans source: PaDIL

Online resources

  • Flickr EOL
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  • PaDIL
    • Description, Distribution, Citation

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Eudocima salaminia

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Phalaena salaminia Cramer, 1777
Published in: Cramer, P. 1777. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title] Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild Vol. 2 pp. 1-152 pls 92-192
Phalaena salaminea; Hübner, 1823
Ophideres atkinsoni Scott, 1890

Common Names

Common name Source
Fruit-piercing Moth
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(fruitpiercing Moth)
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
ARTHROPODA
subphylum
HEXAPODA
class
INSECTA
suprageneric
Pterygotes
order
LEPIDOPTERA
zoological_division
DITRYSIA
superfamily
NOCTUOIDEA
family
NOCTUIDAE
subfamily
Catocalinae
genus
Eudocima
species
Eudocima salaminia  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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