A Fairy moth at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Ceromitia leptosticta | 29 Apr 2020 | GlennCocking | ||
| Ceromitia leptosticta | 29 Apr 2020 | CathB |
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User's notes
Same area and same time of year as previous sightings. Another one photographed the next day.
2 comments
ibaird
wrote:
29 Apr 2020
I'm pretty confident this is a Ceromitia spp., but I'm not confident as to species. There are two other named species on Bold Systems 4 which look very similar. Although probably not C. iolampra because that species has black banding across the forewing.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.073733-35.266352
- Maps Mount Painter
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 27 Apr 2020 12:46 PM Recorded on
- CathB Recorded by
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Insects Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Ceromitia leptosticta Scientific name
- A Fairy moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 640.8m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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