Kuromondokuga albofascia has 2 distinct looks of moths on iNaturalist, and one of them looks like a different species from the same genus called Kuromondokuga disparilis. Is this due to an expired taxation thing it had, and it fused 2 species together? Or did iNaturalist categorize correctly?
I don’t know much about these species in particular, but based on the antennae in the photos, they both appear to be sexually dimorphic, with the females having lots of stripes and the males having just the one single stripe. In the links provided, the “two distinct looks of moths” under albofascia appear to be the males and the females. The disparilis photos appear to be almost all females. Distinguishing between females of the two species and males of the two species may be challenging though, and I don’t know how they’re being identified. You could ask someone on one of their observations how they determined the ID, and they might have more insight.
thank youu, that was very helpful! I tried to do some research about this, but it’s hard to find studies about this genus, but the difference in gender makes sense! I thought it had something to do with this (see the image below), but I wasn’t sure.
I could not tell if the old species that merged look the same since there is no longer photos but I will now study the difference in gender instead, thank you so much!!!