Golden Sun Moth at Watson, ACT
Identification history
| Synemon plana | 11 Nov 2017 | ibaird | ||
| Synemon plana | 11 Nov 2017 | waltraud |
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User's notes
Photographs by Tony Howard.
we observed only males which were running on bare ground stopped frequently and performed low dashes of flight of approx 10m max length.
6 comments
ibaird
wrote:
11 Nov 2017
I think this probably the male. We can't see the hindwings in the photo, but they are brown compared to females bright orange hindwings.
waltraud
wrote:
12 Nov 2017
All animals we observed / collected (and released) that day were males including the one of which Tony took these 2 photos. We haven't observed a female at this day.
ibaird
wrote:
12 Nov 2017
I thought originally that the sighting of the S. plana female i.e No. 3384817 was also on the same day (1 Nov.) but then realised it was later ie. on 10 November, but nearby.
waltraud
wrote:
12 Nov 2017
yeah and the obsevations are 4 years apart! the observation of the female is from yesterday; we observed the males in November 2013!
waltraud
wrote:
16 Nov 2017
I think the female finding 4 years after the males were spotted is a sign that there is a stable breeding population. I'm not aware of anyone monitoring GSM at this location. The 2 observations of 2013 and recently were by chance; I discovered the female during my Fridays @ The Fair weeding activity.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.172106-35.225573
- Maps The Fair, Watson
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 1 Nov 2013 12:00 AM Recorded on
- waltraud Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Sun moths (Castniidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) waltraud Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr ACT threatened species
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Male Gender
Species information
- Synemon plana Scientific name
- Golden Sun Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Vulnerable *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 702m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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