Scaled Carpet at Gungahlin, ACT
Identification history
| Unplaced squamulata | 5 May 2018 | ibaird | ||
| Unplaced squamulata | 5 May 2018 | donhe | ||
| Chrysolarentia severata | 3 Apr 2018 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 29 Mar 2018 | CathB |
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User's notes
I assume this is a moth, although it was holding its wings like a butterfly. The only time it opened them was when it walked across the camera screen, and they looked a fairly plain dark grey. Camera strap in image 4 is 1 cm wide.
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
6 May 2018
I distorted photo 3393838-4 to allow for the oblique view,
and isolated the forewing, and compared that with the pictures in
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lare/lare-wings.html
It was a bad match to the forewing of Chrysolarentia severata
and a good match to Chrysolarentia squamulata.
and isolated the forewing, and compared that with the pictures in
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/lare/lare-wings.html
It was a bad match to the forewing of Chrysolarentia severata
and a good match to Chrysolarentia squamulata.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.169445-35.168928
- Maps Mulligans Flat
- Places Gungahlin, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 27 Mar 2018 03:20 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Unplaced squamulata Scientific name
- Scaled Carpet Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 632.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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