Chenuala heliaspis
Rose Anthelid at Cotter River, ACT
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| Chenuala heliaspis | ibaird | 11 Aug 2018 | |
| Chenuala heliaspis | donhe | 11 Aug 2018 | |
| Lasiocampidae (family) | MichaelMulvaney | 11 Aug 2018 | |
| Unverified | HarveyPerkins | 17 Feb 2018 |
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User's notes
this one was probably about 50 mm in length, the other was possibly as much as 65 mm.
7 comments
18 Feb 2018
Neither was feeding at the time. My recollection is that they were both sitting tight on bare drooping branchlets of an essentially dead small tree, I think posssibly a eucalypt, but I didn't pay much attention.
18 Feb 2018
Some of the caterpillars of Lasicampidae are hairy like that, and have a pair of tufts behind the thorax and one on the tail, like
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lasi/pusilla.html
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lasi/pusilla.html
18 Feb 2018
My first thought at the time was Lasiocampidae, but I really don't know much about them.
12 Aug 2018
The red hairy collar looks like Chenuala heliaspis which also has the dorsal chevron on each segment, and has variable colours.
12 Aug 2018
Yes, a good match with D Hobern's example on the ALA and one of the LBH images for this species.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.782971-35.523022
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 12 Feb 2018 11:56 AM Recorded on
- HarveyPerkins Recorded by
- 50mm or larger Animal size
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- HarveyPerkins Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Chenuala heliaspis Anthelid moths (Anthelidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Chenuala heliaspis Scientific name
- Rose Anthelid Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1535.3m Recorded at altitude
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