Sighting 4352915
A Gelechioid moth at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Agriophara leptosemela | 31 Oct 2020 | donhe | ||
| Agriophara leptosemela | 31 Oct 2020 | ibaird | ||
| Gelechioidea (superfamily) | 24 Oct 2020 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Oct 2020 | kasiaaus |
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2 comments
ibaird
wrote:
31 Oct 2020
I think this moth looks very much like this image of Agriophara leptosmela photographed by D. Hobern at Aranda in 2008, see the ALA and on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dhobern/3002229364
donhe
wrote:
31 Oct 2020
Oswald actually named it A. leptosemela, see
https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofro17roya#page/174/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofro17roya#page/174/mode/1up
Location information
- Coordinates 149.050278-35.208612
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 21 Oct 2020 10:43 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Curved-horn moths (all Gelechioidea except Oecophoridae) kasiaaus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Agriophara leptosemela Scientific name
- A Gelechioid moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1617.9m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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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