caterpillar or pupa or cocoon at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Anthelidae (family) | 9 Oct 2025 | WendyEM | ||
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE | 14 Dec 2019 | GlennCocking | ||
| Noctuidae (family) | 26 Aug 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 24 Oct 2018 | Christine |
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User's notes
About 2 inches (4-5cm) in length.
1 comment
donhe
wrote:
27 Aug 2019
Most Noctuoidea pupate under the soil or in loose cocoons between leaves.
This is more like a Bombycoidae cocoon.
But are you sure it is not a spider egg sac?
This is more like a Bombycoidae cocoon.
But are you sure it is not a spider egg sac?
Location information
- Coordinates 148.804243-35.387060
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 23 Oct 2018 02:54 PM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
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Collections
Christine NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE Scientific name
- caterpillar or pupa or cocoon Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1191m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Lepidoptera sp.
Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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