Zeuzera quieta
Quiet Wood Moth (Zeuzerinae) at Undefined
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| Zeuzera quieta | donhe | 27 Jul 2025 | |
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27 Jul 2025
Zeuzera quieta
https://portal.boldsystems.org/bin/BOLD:AAO3534
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=1362695&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
https://portal.boldsystems.org/bin/BOLD:AAO3534
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=1362695&place_id=6744&preferred_place_id=6744
28 Jul 2025
Tne Australian Faunal Directory has been offline for a few days so naming checks directly from that source were not possible.
28 Jul 2025
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/694e3d8e-2386-42fe-9efd-a0b16b51445e#names
lists Zeuzera quieta Turner, 1932 accepted by AFD
lists Zeuzera quieta Turner, 1932 accepted by AFD
28 Jul 2025
I proposed Zeuzera quieta as per my comment yesterday with the 2 references. Both these references called it Zeuzera quieta. I did not encounter the other name. I don't know how my suggested name changed. Is it related to the evaporating histories? I did add the synonym of Orientozeuzera quieta to the species record of Zeuzera quieta.
29 Jul 2025
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientozeuzera_quieta
Yakovlev, apparently, found evidence that it better fitted Orientozeuzera.
Anyway, all will perhaps be revealed when/if AFD comes good.
Meanwhile we flounder.
Yakovlev, apparently, found evidence that it better fitted Orientozeuzera.
Anyway, all will perhaps be revealed when/if AFD comes good.
Meanwhile we flounder.
1 Aug 2025
Zeuzera quieta versus Orientozeuzera quieta
I have looked at the reference used in the Wikipedia stub you cited. Found via a search at
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Neue-Entomologische-Nachrichten_66_0001-0129.pdf
Yes this proposes a new genus Orientozeuzera (p. 58) and moves some Zeuzera sp to this new genus (comb. nov.). It also proposes a number of new species (spec. nov.) that are assigned to the new genus. However, in the case of Orientozeuzera quieta the entry reads as follows:-
" ? Orientozeuzera quieta Turner, 1932
Zeuzera quieta Turner, 1932, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 56: 194.
LT: North-West Australia: Wyndham. Type material (holotype by monotypy) in Museum of Economic Entomology, Canberra. Distribution: Australia (Queensland, NW Australia) (Turner, 1945)." (p.59)
There is a "?" at the start of the entry and it is not labelled "comb. nov." so I take it the author is unsure about the new placement of this species.
I expect there will be no changes on AFD/ALA any time soon.
I have looked at the reference used in the Wikipedia stub you cited. Found via a search at
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Neue-Entomologische-Nachrichten_66_0001-0129.pdf
Yes this proposes a new genus Orientozeuzera (p. 58) and moves some Zeuzera sp to this new genus (comb. nov.). It also proposes a number of new species (spec. nov.) that are assigned to the new genus. However, in the case of Orientozeuzera quieta the entry reads as follows:-
" ? Orientozeuzera quieta Turner, 1932
Zeuzera quieta Turner, 1932, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 56: 194.
LT: North-West Australia: Wyndham. Type material (holotype by monotypy) in Museum of Economic Entomology, Canberra. Distribution: Australia (Queensland, NW Australia) (Turner, 1945)." (p.59)
There is a "?" at the start of the entry and it is not labelled "comb. nov." so I take it the author is unsure about the new placement of this species.
I expect there will be no changes on AFD/ALA any time soon.
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- Zeuzera quieta Scientific name
- Quiet Wood Moth (Zeuzerinae) Common name
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- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 2m Recorded at altitude
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Orientozeuzera quieta
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