Limacodidae (family)

A cup moth at Majura, ACT

Limacodidae (family) at Majura, ACT - 19 Mar 2017
Limacodidae (family) at Majura, ACT - 19 Mar 2017
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Identification history

Limacodidae (family) 31 Jul 2018 MichaelMulvaney
Limacodidae (family) 22 Jul 2018 donhe
Opodiphthera sp. (genus) 21 Jul 2018 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 19 Mar 2017 AaronClausen

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4 comments

   14 Sep 2017
Probably an Emperor moth or the Saturniidae family
donhe wrote:
   22 Jul 2018
How long was it?
AaronClausen wrote:
   23 Jul 2018
Just added the size sorry Don, approx. 50mm or slightly larger in length. It was a pretty chunky worm.
donhe wrote:
   1 Aug 2018
I agree that is a bit big for Limacodidae, but you beastie does not have the star of spikes on the tubercle tips that characterise the larvae of Opodiphthera, and you are a bit south for all the other species in Saturniidae.
The little spikes on the tubercles are quite like those on the larvae of some of the genera in Limacodidae: e.g. Anaxidia, Calcarifera, and Comana. I only know the larvae of 14 of the 117 named species in Limacocidae, so I think your beastie is one of the other 103.

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