Utetheisa pulchelloides
Heliotrope Moth at Fadden, ACT
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| Utetheisa pulchelloides | GlennCocking | 28 Mar 2018 | |
| Utetheisa pulchelloides | KumikoCallaway | 27 Mar 2018 |
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User's notes
Flew around low, landed frequently.
3 comments
29 Mar 2018
Probably U. pulchelloides but, if I'm honest, I can't really see the diagnostic red spot on the hind edge near the tip of the forewing. Antenna has small spines suggesting a male but they seem quite fine. Have you another photo by any chance?
29 Mar 2018
I added the rest of the photos I took, but they look very similar, sorry. Next time, I will take photos from different angles.
29 Mar 2018
To my eye, the row of red spots along the inner margin match the Butterfly House photo of pulchelloides much better than the one of lorix, although as you say one can't see what is at the tornus (and the spots inside the termen don't match either photo). Pulchelloides is the main southern species, and ACT are most likely to be that.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.110768-35.395537
- Maps Wanniassa Hill
- Places Fadden, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 27 Mar 2018 12:24 PM Recorded on
- KumikoCallaway Recorded by
- Thistle Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Collections
- KumikoCallaway Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Utetheisa pulchelloides Tiger moths (Arctiinae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Utetheisa pulchelloides Scientific name
- Heliotrope Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1738.4m Recorded at altitude
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