Cotton Web Spinner at O'Connor, ACT
Identification history
| Achyra affinitalis | 20 Apr 2018 | GlennCocking | ||
| Achyra affinitalis | 20 Apr 2018 | ibaird |
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Attracted to MV light at night
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ibaird
wrote:
21 Apr 2018
A common, widespread agricultural pest of lucerne, sorghum, cotton, sunflowers, etc. in Australia and New Zealand.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.113266-35.259561
- Altitude 592.2m
- Places O'Connor, ACT
Sighting information
- 5 Abundance
- 19 Apr 2018 09:24 PM Recorded on
- ibaird Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Pyralid or Snout Moths (Pyralidae & Crambidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) ibaird Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Achyra affinitalis Scientific name
- Cotton Web Spinner Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Medium weed or pest
- Up to 787.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Nymphyla sordida
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