Lepidoscia cataphracta
A Case moth at Tharwa, ACT
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| Lepidoscia cataphracta | ibaird | 22 Mar 2025 | |
| Lepidoscia cataphracta | WendyEM | 22 Mar 2025 | |
| Lepidoscia (genus) ADULT | GlennCocking | 19 Sep 2022 | |
| Lepidoscia (genus) ADULT | donhe | 19 Sep 2022 |
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User's notes
closest could match after looking at all 611 species on CNM. The last pic shows the moth on the bottom right leaf of the Verbena sp. plant.
7 comments
22 Mar 2025
https://bold-au.hobern.net/specimens.php?taxid=326573
https://bold-au.hobern.net/taxon.php?taxid=77367
https://bold-au.hobern.net/taxon.php?taxid=651
https://bold-au.hobern.net/taxon.php?taxid=77367
https://bold-au.hobern.net/taxon.php?taxid=651
22 Mar 2025
I'm not convinced, after looking at a series of identified L. cataphracta images, including the BOLD Hobern ones that this moth matches L. cataphracta
22 Mar 2025
The only problem I can see is the dot on the costa instead of the inner margin. Otherwise L. cataphracta is the closest match with this moth.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.073426-35.526158
- Altitude 576.0m
- Maps Gigerline Nature Reserve
- Places Tharwa, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Apr 2019 01:05 PM Recorded on
- RodDeb Recorded by
- Verbena sp. Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- RodDeb NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Case moths (Psychidae) Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects Lepidoscia cataphracta
Species information
- Lepidoscia cataphracta Scientific name
- A Case moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 802m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location