Erebidae (family)

Unidentified immature Erebid moth at Yarralumla, ACT

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Identification history

Erebidae (family)	5 Feb 2019	donhe
Erebidae (family)	3 Feb 2019	michaelb
Geometridae (family) IMMATURE	7 Jan 2019	michaelb
Unidentified	6 Jan 2019	Speedsta

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5 comments

donhe wrote:

8 Jan 2019

The spacing between the prolegs and the claspers in this specimen is much greater than in most Geometridae., which generally sit on these 4 feet as a combined support. The body looks to me more like that of an Erebidae, but all the ones with reduced prolegs in that family, that I know of, still have 2 or 3 unatrophied pairs of prolegs.

michaelb wrote:

8 Jan 2019

My suggestion of Geometridae was made with the sole intention of bringing the sighting to the attention of the moths people and was a rough guess.

donhe wrote:

9 Jan 2019

Thanks, but sadly most Lepidoptera taxonomy has been done on adult insects, so identifying a larva is fraught, unless it can be taken into captivity to protect it from predators, and reared to obtain the adult.

ibaird wrote:

3 Feb 2019

OK michaelb, I deleted my comment after thinking again how to do it. You beat me to it!

michaelb wrote:

4 Feb 2019

Hi Ian
I saw the comment and decided to have a go, and afterward noticed the comment had disappeared !

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