Long-fringed Bark Moth at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
Identification history
| Phelotis cognata | 30 Oct 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Phelotis cognata | 2 Feb 2024 | Kallies | ||
| Phelotis cognata | 30 Aug 2020 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 18 Dec 2018 | AlisonMilton |
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2 comments
ibaird
wrote:
21 Dec 2018
I am tending not to think this is E. fractaria for the following reasons: 1. the overall elongated look of the specimen 2. No hint of eyespots in the hindwing and the hindwing line is not wavy enough and 3. no red-brown inner margin to the forewing. I can't be sure whether the antennae are pectinate (Phelotis cognata), so I think a Psilosticha spp. are possible. However, I think the hindwing major line is too waved for P. cognata and doesn't show fine dots. Both P. absorpta and P.mactaria have a waved major hindwing line, but I don't think the major forewing line is curved enough for P.absorpta. Therefore because of the above, and hindwing pattern and forewing leading edge tick marks I'm suggesting Psilosticha mactaria.
GlennCocking
wrote:
30 Aug 2020
Unless it is an artifact of the photo angle, this moth has narrower wings than the more broadwinged P. mactaria.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.906975-35.462782
- Altitude 744.3m
- Maps Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 14 Dec 2018 10:14 AM Recorded on
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- Phelotis cognata Scientific name
- Long-fringed Bark Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 800.2m Recorded at altitude
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