Insects
Moths (Lepidoptera)
Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae)
Sighting 4253162

Limnaecia callimitris

Ainslie, ACT

Limnaecia callimitris at Ainslie, ACT - 10 Mar 2020
Limnaecia callimitris at Ainslie, ACT - 10 Mar 2020
Limnaecia callimitris at Ainslie, ACT - 10 Mar 2020
Limnaecia callimitris at Ainslie, ACT - 10 Mar 2020
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Identification history

Limnaecia callimitris 31 Mar 2021 GlennCocking
Labdia (genus) 19 Mar 2020 GlennCocking
Labdia (genus) 19 Mar 2020 GlennCocking
Limnaecia camptosema 17 Mar 2020 jb2602

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Looks very similar to Limnaecia camptosema

11 comments

donhe wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
I thought that L. camptosema has 3 white bands. This has 4.
jb2602 wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
What about Macrobathra anacampta?
donhe wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
M. anacampta has a black head. This has a white head.
jb2602 wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
Maybe Macrobathra platychroa?
donhe wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
M platychroa only has 3 white bands.
GlennCocking wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
It might be a tiny Labdia moth, I haven't check ed yet. How big was it John?
jb2602 wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
Tiny, I'm guessing about 10mm
jb2602 wrote:
   18 Mar 2020
Lepi LED set up on a very large branch that had recently fallen from a eucalypt.
GlennCocking wrote:
   20 Mar 2020
Labdia nesophora is the closest named species that I can find - it isn't the same species.
GlennCocking wrote:
   31 Mar 2021
This record matches the type photo reasonably well, although there are no identified specimens available to provide confirmation, and the species does not appear on BOLD or iNAT.
donhe wrote:
   31 Mar 2021
Hi Katarina, Another one at
http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cosm/callimitris.html
Thanks, Don

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  • 5mm to 12mm Animal size

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  • Limnaecia callimitris Scientific name
  • Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • 573.4m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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