Common Bark Moth at Ainslie, ACT
Identification history
| Ectropis excursaria | 28 Mar 2019 | ibaird | ||
| Ectropis excursaria | 27 Mar 2019 | donhe | ||
| Ectropis (genus) | 27 Mar 2019 | jb2602 |
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User's notes
Probably Ectropis excursaria
4 comments
jb2602
wrote:
28 Mar 2019
4204799 was on an Exocarpos and this one was on a black wattle, so they are almost certainly different animals.
donhe
wrote:
28 Mar 2019
I should have looked more closely. The minute patterns of dark lines along the costa are different.
I guess they have costaprints in the Ectropis excursaria world.
I guess they have costaprints in the Ectropis excursaria world.
ibaird
wrote:
28 Mar 2019
I'm happy to confirm the above as E. excursaria following the above discussion and based on the following criteria (after MoV Part 7): 1) the male antennae have short fine pectinatiion, but longer than that typical of E. bispinaria; 2) enough of the hindwing on the RHS is visible to see that it is plain and sloping with a start of the 'step'' at the outer end visible.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.153533-35.261496
- Maps Mount Ainslie
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 25 Mar 2019 10:17 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Geometer moths (Geometridae) Moths (Lepidoptera) jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Black wattle Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Ectropis excursaria Scientific name
- Common Bark Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 696.15m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Tephrosia exportaria
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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