A tortrix or leafroller moth at Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
Identification history
| Heliocosma (genus - immature) | 11 Mar 2024 | ibaird | ||
| Heliocosma (genus - immature) | 10 Mar 2024 | donhe | ||
| Heliocosma (genus) | 6 Apr 2020 | GlennCocking | ||
| Heliocosma (genus) | 16 Mar 2020 | ibaird | ||
| Psychidae (family) IMMATURE | 16 Mar 2020 | donhe | ||
| Cebysa leucotelus | 16 Mar 2020 | Bron |
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10 comments
donhe
wrote:
17 Mar 2020
Fabulous photos.
Not Cebysa leucotelus which feeds on mould and covers the case in detritus, and also has a more complex pattern on the prothorax.
Please: can you take into protective custody, and rear it to get the adult moth?
Most of the taxonomy has been done on adult moths.
Not Cebysa leucotelus which feeds on mould and covers the case in detritus, and also has a more complex pattern on the prothorax.
Please: can you take into protective custody, and rear it to get the adult moth?
Most of the taxonomy has been done on adult moths.
GlennCocking
wrote:
17 Mar 2020
I don't know, I looked yesterday. An entomologist who knows the Tortricoidaea once showed me a photo like this and said it was Heliocosma.
GlennCocking
wrote:
17 Mar 2020
I don't know, I couldn't find anything yesterday. A person who in familiar with the Tortricoidea once suggested to me that a similar photo was of Heliocosma.
donhe
wrote:
18 Mar 2020
The stripes on the thorax visible in photo 2 resemble those on Metura elongatus.
Bron
wrote:
18 Mar 2020
I would have thought that Metura elongatus was too big - this is pretty small
donhe
wrote:
18 Mar 2020
No no. It is certainly not M. elongatus. I was only saying that some caterpillars in Psychidae look like this. But maybe Heliocosma caterpillars look like this too. I have never seen one.
The only way to identify it is to rear it.
Did you take it into protective custody?
The only way to identify it is to rear it.
Did you take it into protective custody?
donhe
wrote:
30 Nov 2021
The head and thorax look very like that in
Heliocosma argyroleuca (A tortrix or leafroller moth)
Heliocosma argyroleuca (A tortrix or leafroller moth)
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.087204-35.253811
- Maps Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill
- Places Bruce, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 29 Oct 2016 11:25 AM Recorded on
- Bron Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Heliocosma (genus - immature) Scientific name
- A tortrix or leafroller moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1065.73m Recorded at altitude
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