Crambidae sp. (family)

A crambid snout mouth at Ainslie, ACT

Crambidae sp. (family) at Ainslie, ACT - 6 Apr 2018
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Identification history

Crambidae sp. (family) 5 Oct 2018 MichaelMulvaney
Arcola malloi 16 Apr 2018 donhe
Unidentified 16 Apr 2018 jb2602

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3 comments

   3 Sep 2018
Don, thanks for your ID suggestion , how certain are of this ID? I understand that the Arcloa malloi moth feeds exclusively on Alligator Weed, which is a rare species in Canberra and is a weed that we are trying to eradicate and is not known from the location where this photo was taken - but perhaps we should go out and take a look?
donhe wrote:
   3 Sep 2018
Arcola malloi seems to be a very variable species, so I think it could be that. However, the posture of your moth looks to me more like that of a Crambinae than a Pyralidae,
I think out of the 125 named species in Crambinae, it is not one of the 15 that I might recognise, so it could be one of the other 110.
   3 Sep 2018
Thanks Don - much appreciated

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