Leucania exarans

Hadeninae at Wanniassa, ACT

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Identification history

Leucania exarans	23 Mar 2021	donhe
Leucania exarans	23 Mar 2021	kasiaaus
Noctuidae (family)	26 Sep 2019	GlennCocking
Unverified	19 Mar 2018	JohnBundock

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3 comments

GlennCocking wrote:

30 Mar 2018

Have you matched this species somewhere Ian, or judged that it looks like Leucania generally? I haven't been able to find it in Leucania, Bathytricia or Heliothiinae.

ibaird wrote:

1 Apr 2018

No, fair comment. If I had found a good match to something named Leucania sp. I can't reproduce it now. I believe i thought it was close to L. polysticha, but looking again I now think that was somewhat premature. This moth seems to be a much stockier specimen to the more elongate L. polysticha.. Its hard to tell whether the whitish prominent wing venations are due to wear and tear or not

ibaird wrote:

23 Mar 2021

OK, now found the record.! Please now ignore my comment above.
Glenn, ALA and AFD list this species in a Species Inquierenda, see here: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/e42c0d52-e1b8-4c5e-b1d8-b9ab43ec1e0d
iNaturalist accepts it as a species in their listing online.
See also the subsequent Sighting No. 4376200.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.093245 -35.393645
Altitude 638.1m
Places Wanniassa, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
19 Mar 2018 09:20 PM Recorded on
JohnBundock Recorded by
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Insects Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) JohnBundock Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Leucania exarans Scientific name
Hadeninae Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 759.21m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania