Glyphipterix platydisema
A Gem moth (Gliphypterigidae) at Tennent, ACT
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| Glyphipterix platydisema | ibaird | 21 Apr 2025 | |
| Glyphipterix platydisema | WendyEM | 21 Apr 2025 | |
| Glyphipterix meteora | GlennCocking | 18 Dec 2019 | |
| Stagmatophora argyrostrepta | donhe | 16 Dec 2019 | |
| Glyphipterix (genus) | ibaird | 15 Dec 2019 | |
| Unverified | MichaelBedingfield | 15 Dec 2019 |
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In Gigerline Nature Reserve, near Tharwa Sandwash.
10 comments
15 Dec 2019
This is for the moth with the narrow white stripes. The other one was reported previously.
17 Dec 2019
I'm not sure this is S. argyrostrepta. I can't see white tipped antennae and the white vertical stripes seem much narrower and one less in number than for that species.
17 Dec 2019
Quite true. Those features may be sex linked, or may not. Better have a look at the other 387 Australian named Cosmopterigids.
19 Dec 2019
The palpi are another way of distinguishing Stagmatophora - long, thin, plain black and recurved - from glyphiteryx - heavily scaled, upright, banded black and white.
19 Dec 2019
The white stripes on this specimen seem rather narrow for G. meterora.
None of the ALA or BOLD specimens have them this narrow along the hind-margin..
None of the ALA or BOLD specimens have them this narrow along the hind-margin..
21 Dec 2019
Yes, I haven't seen a confirmed G. meteora specimen with such narrow white bands. The photo doesn't show what's along the costa well enough, but what you can see is consistent with a G. meteora with generally reduced white/silver areas
Location information
- Coordinates 149.088719-35.531169
- Altitude 586.4m
- Maps Gigerline Nature Reserve
- Places Tennent, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 11 Nov 2019 07:23 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
- Stellaria pungens Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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Species information
- Glyphipterix platydisema Scientific name
- A Gem moth (Gliphypterigidae) Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 647.9m Recorded at altitude
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